Terms and conditions
These are the terms I work under. They exist so that you know what you are getting before you pay anything, and so that neither of us has to guess what was agreed three months later.
Last updated 9 November 2026.
When these terms apply
They apply when you use this website, and they apply to work I do for you unless the quote or a written agreement says something different. If I send you a quote that contradicts a line on this page, the quote wins for that project, because it was written for your job and this page was written for everybody.
I work as a sole trader from Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir. Agreeing to a quote means agreeing to these terms.
Quotes and what they cover
A quote is written for one job, described in the quote itself. It lists what is included, and that list is the agreement. If something is not written in it, it is not in the price, and the honest time to discover that is before you pay rather than at launch.
Prices on this website, where any are shown, are a guide for planning. The number that counts is the one in the quote I send you after I understand what you actually need.
A quote holds for thirty days. After that I may need to look at it again, usually because a third party such as a domain registrar or a hosting company has changed its own prices.
If you want something added once the work is under way, say so and I will tell you what it does to the price and the date before I build it. I will not add work quietly and invoice for it afterwards.
What I need from you
Most projects that run late run late for one reason: the content is not ready. The build is the fast part. Waiting for the text, the photos, the logo or the final decision is what stretches a two week job into two months.
So the practical terms are these. You give me the text and images you want on the site, or you ask me to write them and that is in the quote. You answer questions within a reasonable time. You own the rights to anything you hand me, or you have permission to use it, and you tell me if you are not sure.
I check what I can, but I cannot verify the ownership of a photo you send me. If something you supply turns out to belong to somebody else and they come after it, that is on you, and I will help you replace it quickly.
Payment
I usually take part of the fee before starting and the rest before the site goes live on your own domain. The split is written in the quote. The reason for the first part is simple: it reserves the time, and reserved time is time I am not selling to somebody else.
Domains, hosting, business email, paid plugins, stock photography and anything else bought from a third party are charged at what they cost. These are bought in your name wherever the provider allows it, so they remain yours.
If an invoice goes unpaid and you stop replying, I will stop work and tell you I have stopped. I would rather pause a project and talk about it than let it drift.
Who owns what at the end
When the final invoice is paid, the website I built for you is yours. The design, the pages, the text I wrote for you and the code belong to your business, and I will hand over the files and the logins.
Two sensible exceptions. The general techniques, components and know-how I use stay mine, because they are what I bring to the next job as well as yours. And anything licensed from somebody else, such as a font or a stock photo, stays under that licence rather than becoming yours outright.
Your domain and hosting accounts should be in your own name from the start. I will set them up that way unless you ask me not to. You should never be in a position where leaving your developer means losing your website, including when the developer is me.
Unless you ask me not to, I may show the finished site in my portfolio and say that I built it. If you would rather I did not, tell me and I will leave it out.
After launch
If something I built is broken, I fix it. That is not a favour and it is not chargeable, and there is no time limit on me having built it wrong.
New things are a different matter. A new page, a redesign, a change of mind about something that was signed off, or a feature nobody mentioned at the start is new work, and I will quote for it.
Ongoing care is a separate arrangement. Without it, the site keeps working, but updates come through me when you ask rather than being watched over month to month.
Where a site depends on something outside my control, such as a payment gateway, a hosting company or a search engine, I can build it properly against that service but I cannot promise how that service behaves. If a gateway changes its rules, that is not a fault in the work.
What I will not promise
I will not promise a position in Google, a number of enquiries, or a level of sales, and you should be careful with anyone who does. Search engines rank what they rank, competitors move, and your market does what it does.
What I do promise is the work itself: a site built properly, fast, readable by search engines, with the technical groundwork done and nothing hidden from you. SEO work is judged the same way, by what was done and why, rather than by a position I cannot control.
If a project ends early
Either of us can stop. If you stop, you pay for the work done up to that point and I hand over what exists. If I stop, which would have to be for a serious reason, I return anything you have paid for work I have not done.
What I will not do is hold your files or your accounts to force a payment. If the project ends, you leave with what is yours.
The cancellation and refunds page sets out how that is worked out in practice.
Liability and law
If I get something wrong, my responsibility is limited to what you paid me for that job. I am one person, not an insurer, and I cannot carry the risk of losses further down the line, such as business you believe you missed.
Nothing here removes a right you have by law that cannot be signed away. These terms are read under Indian law, and the courts of Jammu and Kashmir are where a dispute would be heard.
Before any of that, talk to me. Almost everything that goes wrong in this kind of work is a misunderstanding about what was agreed, and it is usually fixed in one honest conversation.