OUR TERMS OF BUSINESS
Astarte Web Design
The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 requires us to declare certain information about our business publicly. The following paragraph is designed to satisfy those requirements:
Astarte Web Design is the trading name of
Anne Nichols, 4 Drovers Way, Burton, Carnforth. LA6 1HU.
General
All terms and conditions are as governed by UK law.
Astarte Web Design will at all times endeavour to meet the Customer's requirements and delivery date but cannot be held responsible for delays outside its reasonable control.
The Customer is responsible for the accuracy and content of any and all information published within his/her web pages.
It is the Customer's responsibility to ensure material he/she supplies to Astarte Web Design for publication on the Internet is not in breach of copyright or UK law.
Where there are possible copyright concerns it is the Customer's responsibility to obtain the relevant permission prior to publication of any copyrighted material.
The Customer shall indemnify Astarte Web Design against any claim made for breach of copyright law or other UK legislation.
Astarte Web Design cannot accept liability in respect of information published by the Customer nor is acceptance of the Customer an endorsement of the Customer's products and/or services.
Astarte Web Design shall supply the Customer with a full copy of the web site prior to official publication on the Internet and will not proceed without approval in writing from the Customer.
Astarte Web Design reserves the right to refuse to publish material it considers to be in breach of UK law. In the event such material becomes apparent post publication Astarte Web Design reserves the right to immediately remove such content from the public domain. It is the Customer's responsibility to ensure material published is legal. Any payment made for work which is subsequently found to contain copyright or illegal material will be forfeit by the Customer.
Any photographs of Customer's employees and/or family published on the web site will be on the understanding that full permission has been given to the Customer. In the event the Customer wishes any photographs of minors to be published in the promotion of the Customer's services or products full written permission from the parents or guardians of the minor(s) must be given to Astarte Web Design prior to use.
All copyright as regards site design and original content will be retained by Astarte Web Design with an understanding that designs used on a Customer's site will not be used elsewhere without the full written permission of the Customer for whose site they were created.
Any prices detailed in Astarte Web Design's web site or other marketing information will be for guidance only. A full written quotation will be provided after discussion of the Customer's requirements and any quotation remains valid for a period of 30 days.
Any modifications to the original web site as submitted and quoted in the original commission will be considered outside the original scope of the contract and Astarte Web Design reserves the right to charge for such modifications following a further quotation if considered appropriate.
Astarte Web Design will if required supply information on suitable internet service providers domain names and forwarding but Astarte Web Design can neither guarantee the service providers' performance nor be held responsible for any lack of service caused by the service providers.
In the event that the Customer wishes Astarte Web Design to arrange a domain name and forwarding or hosting Astarte Web Design will arrange for the initial registration and first period's forwarding/hosting. Any further negotiations with the domain name registry will be subject to agreement between the Customer and Astarte Web Design.
Where Astarte Web Design arranges domain name registration the name will remain the legal property of the client for the period of the domain registration. Astarte Web Design will have no claim on or rights to the name.
Payment
Quotations will remain valid for 30 days from the date of issue in writing.
At the time of commissioning the web site the Customer will pay a deposit of 20% of the quotation for the web site design and build plus any extra charges for domain registration and hosting/forwarding.
Commissions are only accepted in writing.
Astarte Web Design will complete the work as outlined in the agreement to the reasonable satisfaction of the Customer prior to final payment.
Payment will be due within 7 days of final invoice. Full internet publication of the web pages will take place only after all payments due have been received.
Explanation of Terms Used
Customer - the person commissioning the web site and who will be responsible for all payments due for providing same
Domain name - the web site address beginning http://www. also referred to as an Uniform Resource Locator - URL
Forwarding - The forwarding or redirecting of a domain name URL to a web site hosted on a different webspace
Hosting - The "housing" of a web site by a service provider
Internet - An international network linking computers for the sharing of information
ISP - Internet Service Provider - a company which provides access to the internet
Minor - A person of either gender below the age of 18 years
Web Page - A single page of text and graphics in a format another computer can read usually but not necessarily containing links to further pages
Web Site - A group of linked pages at one URL or web address
WWW - The World Wide Web - the network of linked pages of formatted text and graphics accessed via the internet