CotswoldMedia – Web Design and Development Company

Terms and conditions

The following terms and conditions apply to all website design services supplied by CotswoldMedia. By confirming a quote either in writing or verbally or by ordering a service or product from CotswoldMedia you are accepting the following terms and conditions.

  1. We reserve the right to refuse to construct a website that we may judge as unfit due to content or otherwise. This includes, but is not limited by, sites containing adult oriented material such as pornography, sites which promote hatred towards persons belonging to any ethnic group, religion or sexual orientation and sites which infringe copyright or are contrary to UK laws.
  2. The acceptance of a commission quote shall be deemed as a contractual agreement between the client and CotswoldMedia.
  3. CotswoldMedia cannot always guarantee to start work immediately on a commission but will arrange a date with the client as to when work can commence.
  4. A deposit of no less than 30% (subject to size and/or price) of the total quoted price must be provided before project commencement.
  5. All material, both text and images, supplied by the client and used in the construction of the client's website, will remain the client's property. All such material will be assumed to be the property of the client and free to use without fear of breach of copyright laws.
  6. The copyright for all material provided by CotswoldMedia, such as source code, graphics, photographs video, animation and text, will remain the property of CotswoldMedia until such time as payment has been made in full whereupon they will become the property of the client.
  7. CotswoldMedia makes every effort to design pages that will display acceptably in the most popular current browsers, but cannot accept responsibility for pages which do not display acceptably in new versions of browsers released after pages have been designed.
  8. CotswoldMedia will submit a client's website to several of the major search engines as part of the design commission. If a client wishes CotswoldMedia to promote a website as a separate commission, CotswoldMedia will make every reasonable effort to promote the website effectively but cannot guarantee high placings in search engine results.
  9. CotswoldMedia can accept no responsibility or liability if any search engine, online directory or search site, submitted to as part of a website promotion commission, chooses not to list a client's website.
  10. CotswoldMedia will initially place the client's website on a demonstration server in order that the client may view and comment upon the website's progress. Once the client has agreed that the website meets the criteria agreed during the commissioning process, CotswoldMedia will publish the website on the client's server and invoice the client for the outstanding balance due for the commission.
  11. If at any point during the design process a client wishes to cancel, they may do so but will be invoiced an amount that CotswoldMedia judges to be proportional to the amount of work completed on the commission.
  12. If, during the Website Development Cycle, the client does not supply the content required in order to complete the commission within a reasonable amount of time, CotswoldMedia will consider that the client wishes to cancel the commission.
  13. CotswoldMedia expects payments by cheque within 28 days of the date on the invoice.
  14. Any payment returned by the bank or credit card company will incur a £30 administration charge. This will be invoiced and will be added to the total outstanding debt owed by the customer.
  15. CotswoldMedia does not undertake to maintain or update a client's website as part of the design commission. If a client wishes CotswoldMedia to maintain or update a website as a separate commission, CotswoldMedia will negotiate with the client a maintenance contract appropriate to the amount of work required. Website maintenance may also be undertaken on a time and materials basis if the client so wishes.
  16. CotswoldMedia reserves the right to alter prices at any time without notice. If a client has commissioned any services from CotswoldMedia prior to a change in prices, that commission will not be subject to any increase, but any subsequent commission may be subject to an increase.
  17. By agreeing to these terms and conditions your statutory rights are not affected.