NCoresoft Web Contract
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.
Charges
Charges for services to be provided by NCoresoft are defined in the project quotation that the Client receives via e-mail. Quotations are valid for a period of 30 days. NCoresoft reserves the right to alter or decline to provide a quotation after expiry of the 30 days.
A 50% deposit of the total fee payable under our proposal is due immediately upon you instructing us to proceed with the website design and development work. The remaining 50% shall become due when the work is completed to your reasonable satisfaction but subject to the terms of the “approval of work” and “rejected work” clauses. We reserve the right not to commence any work until the deposit has been paid in full.
The deposit is not refundable if the development work has been started and you terminate the contract through no fault of ours.
Supply Of Materials
You must supply all materials and information required by us to complete the work in accordance with any agreed specification. Such materials may include, but are not limited to, photographs, written copy, logos and other printed material. If you agree to provide us with the required information and subsequently fail to do within one week (or agreed time) of project commencement we reserve the right to close the project and the balance remaining becomes payable immediately. Where there is any delay in supplying these materials to us which leads to a delay in the completion of work, we have the right to extend any previously agreed deadlines by a reasonable amount; the extended deadlines would be conveyed to you via e-mails.
To remain efficient we 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 result, we reserve the right to impose a surcharge of up to 25%.
Simply put, all the above condition says is do not give us the go ahead to start until you are ready to do so.
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. Images must be provided in a folder shared online or offline with sub-folders containing images for separate pages.
Using our content management system you are able to keep your content up to date yourself.
Project Delays And Client Liability
Any time frames or estimates that we give are contingent upon your full co-operation and complete and final content in photography for the work pages. During development there is a certain amount of feedback required in order to progress to subsequent phases. It is required that a single point of contact be appointed from your side and be made available on a daily basis in order to expedite the feedback process.
Approval Of Work
On completion of the work you will be notified and have the opportunity to review it. You must notify us in writing of any unsatisfactory points within 7 days of such notification. Any of the work which has not been reported in writing to us as unsatisfactory within the 7-day review period will be deemed to have been approved. Once approved, or deemed approved, work cannot subsequently be rejected and the contract will be deemed to have been completed and the 50% balance of the project price will become due.
Rejected Work
We will be presenting the client with the first draft of the project, to give a glimpse of overall design, typography, look and feel.If you reject any of our work within the 7-day review period, or not approve subsequent work performed by us to remedy any points recorded as being unsatisfactory, and we, acting reasonably, consider that you have been unreasonable in any rejection of the work, we can elect to treat this contract as at an end and take measures to recover payment for the completed work.
Revisions
Having a reputation to maintain, we make sure to complete points mentioned in your feedback up to your satisfaction. However, changes / additions must be given in one single E-Mail or Document, compiled as a single revision. We would be offering First Revision for free and an additional Revision for free, just to correct points that have surfaced due to previous revision. Any subsequent revisions will be charged at the rate of $6.00 per hour or considered as a part of project maintenance.
Warranty By You As To Ownership Of Intellectual Property Rights
You must obtain all necessary permissions and authorities in respect of the use of all copy, graphic images, registered company logos, names and trademarks, or any other material that you supply to us to include in your website or web applications.
You must indemnify us and hold us harmless from any claims or legal actions related to the content of your website.
Licensing
Once you have paid us in full for our work we grant to you a license to use the website and its related software and contents for the life of the website.
Search Engines
We do not guarantee any specific position in search engine results for your website unless you have opted for SEO Services. We perform basic search engine optimization according to current best practice.
Consequential Loss
We shall not be liable for any loss or damage which you may suffer which is in any way attributable to any delay in performance or completion of our contract, however that delay arises.
Disclaimer
To the full extent permitted by law, all terms, conditions, warranties, undertakings, inducements or representations whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise (other than the express provisions of these terms and conditions) relating in any way to the services we provide to you are excluded. Without limiting the above, to the extent permitted by law, any liability of NCoresoft under any term, condition, warranty or representation that by law cannot be excluded is, where permitted by law, limited at our option to the replacement, re-repair or re-supply of the services or the payment of the cost of the services that we were contracted to perform.
Subcontracting
We reserve the right to subcontract any services that we have agreed to perform for you as we see fit.
Non-disclosure
We (and any subcontractors we engage) agree that we will not at any time disclose any of your confidential information to any third party.
Additional Expenses
You agree to reimburse us for any requested expenses which do not form part of our proposal including but not limited to the purchase of templates, third party software, stock photographs, fonts, domain name registration, web hosting or comparable expenses.
Backups
You are responsible for maintaining your own backups with respect to your website and we will not be liable for restoring any client data or client websites except to the extent that such data loss arises out of a negligent act or omission by us.
Ownership Of Domain Names And Web Hosting
We will supply to you account credentials for domain name registration and/or web hosting that we purchased on your behalf when you reimburse us for any expenses that we have incurred.
Governing Law
The agreement constituted by these terms and conditions and any proposal will be construed according to and is governed by the laws of India. You and NCoresoft submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in and of Ahmedabad in relation to any dispute arising under these terms and conditions or in relation to any services we perform for you.
Cross Browser Compatibility
By using current versions of well supported content management systems such as “Wordpress”, we endeavor to ensure that the web sites we create are compatible with all current modern web browsers such as the most recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Third party extensions, where used, may not have the same level of support for all browsers. Where appropriate we will substitute alternative extensions or implement other solutions, on a best effort basis, where any incompatibilities are found.
E-commerce
You are responsible for complying with all relevant laws relating to e-commerce, and to the full extent permitted by law will hold harmless, protect, and defend and indemnify NCoresoft and its subcontractors from any claim, penalty, tax, tariff loss or damage arising from your or your clients’ use of Internet electronic commerce.
Design Credit
A link to NCoresoft will appear in either small type or by a small graphic at the bottom of the Client’s website. If a graphic is used, it will be designed to fit in with the overall site design. If a client requests that the design credit be removed, a nominal fee of 5-10% of the total development charges will be applied. The Client also agrees that the website developed for the Client may be presented in NCoresoft ‘s portfolio.
Access Requirements
If the Client’s website is to be installed on a third-party server, NCoresoft 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.
Post-placement Alterations
NCoresoft 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.
Domain Names
NCoresoft 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 NCoresoft . The Client should keep a record of the due dates for payment to ensure that payment is received in good time.