Logo Design packages includes 3 logos as well as 3 changes (Colour font styles etc). If further changes are required we will gladly assist you at of R 400 per hour. Logos not chosen remains the property of Life is Awesome Design Studio and may be used by Life is Awesome Design Studio again.
Life is Awesome Design Studio is not responsible for writing any body copy (unless a client specifies this up-front). Life is Awesome Design Studio does not take any responsibility for text errors after sign-off from a client. We are able to provide language, grammar and spell checking at an extra fee.
If you contract us to create designs for the look-and-feel of your website, we will ask you to sign off the design brief before we begin.
The agreement would then include one main design, plus the opportunity for you to make up to two rounds of revisions.
If you’re still not happy with the designs at that stage, you may continue to commission us to make further design revisions at our daily rate for design.
We are proud of our abilities as designers and are able to make virtually any thing you desire. However in the event that you wish to use your own graphics or designs we will consult you on this and the following points will apply:
Please feel free to talk to us if you are interested in optimizing your website for search engine rankings, which we strongly recommend for all public-facing websites. While we do include some SEO as part of any web work we do, we offer a wider range of SEO consulting services as well.
We know from plenty of experience that fixed-price contracts are rarely beneficial to you, as they often limit you to your first idea about how something should look, or how it might work. We don’t want to limit either your options or your opportunities to change your mind.
The costs quoted at the beginning of a project is based on an estimate amount of time a project will take to complete. We reserve the right to revise the cost estimate if absolutely necessary. This could happen if there is a scope increase, or changes to the brief, such as if you want to change your mind about the design we’ve agreed to, add extra pages or templates or even add new functionality. We will ask you to put those requests in writing so that we can keep track of changes, and will agree with you to a cost estimate for the additional work that will have to be done.
Any changes after you have signed off on the final proofs, will be considered as extra work, for which we will charge our hourly rate.
If you or an agent other than Life Is Awesome Design Studio attempts to update the site’s pages, infrastructure, or source files before the project’s completion in a way that causes damage to individual pages or the site’s architecture, any time spent repairing will be charged at an additional cost, at triple our hourly rate.
If at any time the project has to be halted because we have to wait for feedback from you (for longer than provided for in the timeline we have both agreed to), we will keep track of this waiting time. Should it accumulate to more than 3 extra days, we will contact you to discuss ways to resolve the hold-up, or renegotiate the contract.
If we do not receive the necessary feedback from you for a period of 30 days, it will be seen as you backing out, and the project will unfortunately have to be abandoned and closed.
Likewise, if there is a delay on our side in terms of delivery, we will contact you to discuss the reasons for this and come to an agreement.
If there are any delays during a photography shoot that Life is Awesome Design Studio is not directly responsible for we will charge for the over time at our hourly rate. Life is Awesome Design Studio cannot be held responsible for any delays or damage caused by weather during a photo shoot.
You guarantee to us that any elements of text, graphics, photos, designs, trademarks, code or other content that you provide us for inclusion in the website are either owned by your good selves, or that you have permission to use them.
Until the project has been completed, everything we have created belongs to us. When we receive your final payment, copyright is automatically assigned as follows:
You own —The rights to use the graphics, photographs and other visual elements that we create for you for this project, as well as text content, photographs, images and any data you provided, unless someone else owns them. If however you wish to resell any images created by us you will need to do this through us as we still own any images we created.
We own — The graphics, photographs and other visual elements that we create for you for this project as well as the right to use any images or designs as we see fit (this does how ever not mean that for example a logo designed for you will be resold “as is”). In the event that you wish to alter any of the designs we created it has to be done through us as any designs based on our work will be considered as a ‘derivative work’ and has to be done through Life is Awesome Design Studio. (this is basic copyright, if we create it we own it. You retain the right to use it with in the specified boundaries)
We are proud of our work and love to show it off, so we reserve the right to put a by-line on the bottom of the site, which links back to our site, to establish design and development credit. We also love to share what we have learned with other people, so we also reserve the right to display and link to your completed project as part of our portfolio and to write about the project on websites, in magazine articles and in books. We also reserve the right to enter any pieces we see fit into competitions.
We are sure you understand how important it is to a small business such as ours that you pay our invoices promptly. As we’re also sure you’ll want to stay friends, you agree to stick tight to the Payment Schedule.
Photography needs to be payed 50% upfront to confirm a booking. The other 50% needs to be paid as soon as the CD with Photos on are ready for delivery. No photos / CD disks will be handed over if final payment has not yet been received.
We don’t believe that it’s going to happen, but we need to make provision for a fall out nevertheless:
Nothing in our Agreement shall constitute either party as the employer, principal or partner of or joint venture with the other party. Work will be done as an independent business service, operate on our schedule and take place at our facilities. We are not providing services exclusively to you, and we retain the right to perform services for other clients during the term of this contract.
By accepting a contract with us, you accept all of the costs, terms and conditions stipulated in this terms and conditions, and the project may then proceed.
If and to the extent that either party is prevented or delayed from performing any of our obligations under our agreement by any circumstances not foreseeable at the date of this contract and not within the reasonable control of the party in question, it shall promptly notify the other party, specifying the matters constituting force majeure, with some evidence if possible. The party should also specify how long it estimates that the prevention or delay will continue. The party so affected shall then be relieved of liability to the other for failure to perform or for delay in performing (as the case may be) its obligations.
A dispute concerning this agreement exists once a party notifies the other in writing of the nature of the dispute and requires it to be resolved under this clause. The parties must refer any dispute to be resolved by negotiation, failing which mediation, failing which arbitration. Within 10 business days of notification, the parties must seek an amicable resolution to the dispute by referring it to designated and authorized representatives of each of the parties to negotiate and resolve it by the parties signing an agreement resolving it within 15 business days. If negotiation fails, the parties must refer the dispute for resolution by mediation under the rules of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA, or its successor or body nominated in writing by it in its stead). If mediation fails, the parties must refer the dispute within 15 business days for resolution by arbitration (including any appeal against the arbitrator’s decision) by one arbitrator (appointed by agreement between the parties) as an expedited arbitration in Cape Town under the then current rules for expedited arbitration of AFSA. If the parties cannot agree on any arbitrator within a period of 10 business days after the referral, the arbitrator will be appointed by the Secretariat of AFSA. This clause is a separate, divisible agreement from the rest of this contract and must remain in effect even if this contract terminates, is nullified, or cancelled for any reason or cause.