Purchase Agreement
This purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) is an agreement between WebsiteMas, LLC (“us”, “our”, “we”, or “WebsiteMas”) and you (“User” or “you” or “your”) the client (person who represents himself a company or business).
With that in mind:
At WEBSITEMAS LLC, we always do our best to fulfill your needs and meet your expectations, but it’s important to have things written down so that we both know what’s what, who should do what and when, and what will happen if something goes wrong.
In this purchase agreement, you won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. We’ve no desire to trick you into agreeing to something that you might later regret. What we do want is what’s best for both parties, now and in the future.
So, in short;
When you hire us, whether by a phone call, text, email, or work order form, to do any of the services we offer on this website (www.websitemas.com) for the price we both agreed to, you are acknowledging and agreeing to the terms of this purchase agreement.
What do both parties agree to?
You: You have the authority to enter into this purchase agreement on behalf of yourself, your company, or your organization. You’ll give us the assets and information we tell you we need to complete the project. You’ll do this when we ask and provide it in the formats we ask for. You’ll review our work and provide feedback and approval in a timely manner too. Deadlines work two ways, so you’ll also be bound by dates we set together. You also agree to stick to the payment schedule set out at the end of this purchase agreement.
WebsiteMas LLC: We have the experience and ability to do everything we’ve agreed with you, and we’ll do it all in a professional and timely manner. we’ll endeavor to meet every deadline that’s set, and on top of that, we’ll maintain the confidentiality of everything you give us.
Getting down to the nitty gritty
Website Design
We create websites using WordPress and WordPress themes or templates. Once you choose a template, we will change its colors and fonts to your preferences, but we won’t make any changes to the template’s base.
You’ll have plenty of opportunities to review our work and provide feedback. You’ll be able to access your new site and view the work that has been done, or we’ll share a development site where you can do so as well. We’ll have regular, possibly daily contact by phone, text, or email.
Domain name
Your new website requires a domain name. Your package includes the cost of the domain name for the first year (at a cost of no more than $20 maximum/per year); at the end of the period, you will need to renew it if you want to continue the use of it. It will be registered in your name, your company, or the fictitious name that you provide to us. Its cost varies depending on what you are looking for. But in most cases, it is only $20 or less per year.
We will send you a notification 45 days before the expiration date for you to renew it. If it is not renewed, your website will stop working at the expiration date, and you may lose your domain name due to someone else acquiring the rights to use it.
Please note, that you can purchase the domain name yourself and provide it to us. The vendor we use is GoDaddy.com. But there are several other vendors in the marketplace.
Web hosting
Your new website requires a web hosting service. We provide it, which is included in your new website’s monthly cost. And is as follows:
- Basic website package: $14.99 per month,
- Standard website package: $19.99 per month
- Premium website package: $29.99 per month.
It is a “pay-as-you-go” service, which means that you pay for the month in advance and use the service; if you do not pay for it, your website stops appearing on the internet until you pay for the service again (you will not incur in any penalty fees for the service month that you do not pay for).
Note: If the hosting service is not paid for more than six consecutive months, your website will be permanently removed from our hosting servers.
Text and other content
We are not responsible for creating text content, images, or videos for your new website. You are responsible for supplying all your website’s content.
Browser testing
We test our work in current versions of major desktop browsers, including those made by Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome), Microsoft (Edge), and Mozilla Firefox.
Mobile browser testing
All our designs are mobile-ready. We do regular testing using the two most popular browsers:
iOS: Safari
Android: Google Chrome
Maintenance
Maintenance is an optional service we provide. It costs $10/month (for a website of up to 30 pages and $20/month for up to 100 pages). It provides the best performance and preventive hacker protection. It includes daily monitoring, monthly site backup, scanning, and updates. See the Service Page for more information.
Technical support
Technical support is not included in any web design plan. But it is available on request. Please see the Service Page.
Search engine optimization (SEO)
We don’t guarantee improvements to your website’s search engine ranking, but the websites and the pages that we develop are accessible to search engines and will most certainly get indexed by them.
Changes and revisions
We don’t want to limit your ability to change your mind. We are happy to be flexible. If you wish to change your mind and change your chosen template, that won’t be a problem; more than likely, it won’t be any extra charges. Unless the work is completed, in that case, we’ll provide a separate estimate for the additional tweaks.
Legal stuff
We’ll carry out our work in accordance with good industry practice and at the standard expected from a suitably qualified person with relevant experience. That said, we can’t guarantee that our work will 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, even if you’ve advised us of them.
Your liability to us will also be limited to the amount of fees payable under this purchase agreement, and you won’t be liable to us or any third party for damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental, consequential, or special damages, even if we’ve advised you of them.
Finally, if any provision of this purchase agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason is unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this purchase agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Intellectual property rights
Just to be clear, “Intellectual property rights” means all patents, rights to inventions, copyright (including rights in software) and related rights, trademarks, service marks, get-up and trade names, internet domain names, rights to goodwill or to sue for passing off, rights in designs, database rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how) and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications (or rights to apply) for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or shall subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.
First, you guarantee that all elements of text, images, videos, or other artwork you provide are either owned by your good selves or that you’ve permission to use them. When you provide text, images, or other artwork to us, you agree to protect us from any claim by a third party that we are using their intellectual property.
We guarantee that we either own all elements of the work we deliver to you or we’ve obtained permission to provide them to you. We don’t provide text, images, video, or other artwork to you.
Provided you’ve paid for the work and that this purchase agreement hasn’t been terminated, we’ll assign all intellectual property rights to you as follows:
You’ll own the website we design for you. You own all intellectual property rights of text, images, videos, site specifications, and data you provided unless someone else owns them.
We’ll own any intellectual property rights we’ve developed prior to or developed separately from this project and not paid for by you. We’ll own the unique combination of these elements that constitutes a complete design, and we’ll license its use to you exclusively and in perpetuity for this project only.
All of the finished files for your website will be stored on the hosting server. We are not required to keep a copy, but if you are on the monthly maintenance plan, we will keep a safe backup for you in our work folder.
Taking your website with you
If you decide to take your website elsewhere, you can do so.
At the end of the project, and our services are paid in full, the website design it’s yours.
Total cost of each website design
- Basic Package: $300
- Standard Package: $500
- Premium Package: $800 or more, depending on the work done.
Therefore, if you need to move, we will provide you with a zip file with all of your website’s content.
We will also provide technical support at your request and at the rates stated on our Service Page.
Of course, we don’t want you to leave us, and we will do our best to keep you. But if you need to go, we can’t stop you from taking your new website with you.
Displaying my work
We love to show off our work, so we reserve the right to display all aspects of our creative work, including sketches, work-in-progress designs, and the completed project on our portfolio and in articles on websites, in YouTube videos, in magazine articles, and in books.
Payment schedule
We are sure you understand how important it is as a small business that you pay the invoices that we send you promptly (we issue invoices electronically). You agree to stick tight to the following payment schedule.
We do not need your credit card information to begin building your new website, we’ll do the work first, and after the website is completed, we will send you an invoice for you to make your payment. You can pay through a secure credit card processor, or you can also use PayPal and/or Zelle to send your payment. Please make your payment within 30 days from the invoice date.
For the monthly web hosting service.- An invoice will be sent to you 15 days before the end of each month period for you to make your payment for the next month of service.
If you choose to pay yearly, an invoice will be sent to you 45 days before the expiration of the period of one year of service for you to make your payment for the next year of service (please make your payment within 30 days of receiving the invoice).
For the domain name.- an invoice will be sent to you 45 days before the expiration of the period of one year for you to make your renewal payment (please make your payment within 30 days of receiving the invoice). If payment is not received, the domain name will not be renewed, and you could lose it. We are not responsible for the loss of your domain name if you do not make your renewal payment on time.
For clients on the Monthly Maintenance service.- an invoice will be sent to you 15 days before the end of each month period for you to make your payment for the next month of service.
For customers residing outside the US.- You agree to pay all fees associated with international fund transfers.
We reserve the right to charge interest on all overdue debts at the rate of 10% per month or part of a month.
Information and content to start a project
Once your order is accepted by us, you agree to deliver 100% of the information needed to start working on your new website within a maximum of 30 calendar days.
If the information is not received, we will cancel your order without any obligation to you.
Refund policy
For Website creation. You do not need to pay in advance if you purchase a website design package. Once the Website is finished, we will send you an invoice for you to pay within 30 days. Once you pay that invoice, you accept that the work was completed to your expectations; therefore, there will be no refunds.
And the same goes for other website design elements, such as pages, contact forms, logos, etc.
Services, such as hosting and maintenance, are pay-as-you-go monthly services. Therefore if you cancel within the first five days of the renewal date, we will refund that specific month’s payment.
Domain name. You will get a full refund if you cancel within 20 days of renewal.
Reservations of rights
Our services are exclusive to helping small business owners, therefore we do not work for political or religious entities.
We reserve the right to refuse to work for something or someone whose activities do not go according to our criteria (e.g., promote discrimination, racism, defamation, or any crime, in which case we will inform the corresponding authorities).
The small print
No need for small print.
We both agree that we’ll adhere to all relevant laws and regulations in relation to our activities under this purchase agreement and not cause the other to breach any relevant laws or regulations.
This purchase agreement stays in place and needs not to be renewed. If, for some reason, one part of this agreement becomes invalid or unenforceable, the remaining parts of it remain in place.
Although the language is simple, the intentions are serious, and this purchase agreement is a legal document under the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States of America.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this purchase agreement, please contact us at www.websitemas.com/contact
This document was last updated in April 2024.
Source idea for this service agreement: Stuff & Nonsense