Terms and Conditions

The following terms and conditions apply to all web site design services offered by Basic Sites. By ordering services from Basic Sites you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.

1. We reserve the right to refuse to construct a web site which 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 shall be deemed as a contractual agreement between the client and Basic Sites.
3. Basic Sites 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. All material, both text and images, supplied by the client and used in the construction of the client's web site, 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.
5. The copyright for all material provided by Basic Sites, such as HTML code, graphics, photographs and text, will remain the property of Basic Sites until such time as payment has been made in full whereupon they will become the property of the client.
6. Basic Sites makes every effort to design pages which 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. Basic Sites does not guarantee to design pages which will display in all browsers.
7. Basic Sites will submit a client's website to several of the major search engines as part of the design commission. If a client wishes Basic Sites to promote a web site as a separate commission, this will be undertaken as a separate agreement.
8. Basic Sites can accept no responsibility or liability if any search engine, online directory or search site, submitted to as part of a web site promotion commission, chooses not to list a client's web site.
9. Basic Sites will initially place the client's website on one of Basic Sites's demonstration servers during in order that the client may view and comment upon the website's progress. When both Basic Sites and the client agree that the website meets the criteria agreed, Basic Sites will arrange for the site to be put live. Should the client fail to settle the final invoice the site will be removed. Should the client wish to upload and publish the site themselves, copies of all files and images will be provided to the client on a CD, on receipt of final payment.
10. If at any point during the Website Development Cycle a client wishes to cancel, they may do so but will be invoiced an amount that Basic Sites judges to be proportional to the amount of work completed on the commission.
11. 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, Basic Sites will consider that the client wishes to cancel the commission.
12. Basic Sites expects payment by cheque within 14 days of the date on the invoice.
13. Any payment returned by the bank or credit card company will incur a £15 administration charge. This will be invoiced and will be added to the total outstanding debt owed by the customer.
14. Basic Sites does not undertake to maintain or update a client's website as part of the design commission (with the exception of occasional, minor updates). If a client wishes Basic Sites to maintain or update a web site as a separate commission, Basic Sites will negotiate with the client a maintenance contract appropriate to the amount of work required. Web site maintenance may also be undertaken on a time and materials basis if the client so wishes.
15. Basic Sites reserves the right to alter prices at any time without notice. If a client has commissioned any services from Basic Sites 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.
16. By agreeing to these terms and conditions your statutory rights are not affected.