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These terms cover use of this website and the basis on which project work is quoted and delivered by Akif Wani, based in Jammu & Kashmir, India. In short: quotes are fixed and in writing, scope changes are agreed before they happen, and you own the work outright once it is paid for.
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Using this website
You may read, share, and link to anything published on this site. The content is provided for general information and does not constitute professional advice for your specific situation — pricing figures in particular are starting points, and your project is quoted individually.
Quotes and scope
Prices shown on this site are starting figures, not binding offers. A binding quote is the written quote issued for your specific project after scoping, which states the price, the timeline, and what is included.
Work is delivered against that written scope. Anything falling outside it is quoted separately and agreed before it starts, rather than added to an invoice afterwards.
Payment
Projects begin with an upfront deposit, with the balance due on completion before launch. Larger projects may be split across agreed milestones. Payment is accepted through Upwork, Fiverr, or direct invoicing, as agreed at the start.
Where a project is arranged through Upwork or Fiverr, that platform's own terms and dispute-resolution process also apply to the engagement.
Revisions
Revisions within the agreed scope are included. Layout and design changes are best raised at the design review stage, before build, where they cost minutes rather than days.
Requests that change the agreed scope — new pages, new functionality, a different direction after build — are quoted as additional work before being carried out.
Client responsibilities
Delivery timelines assume you provide what the project needs when it is needed. Specifically:
- Content, images, and brand assets, unless copywriting or photography is part of the agreed scope.
- Access to any existing hosting, domain registrar, or third-party accounts the work requires.
- Timely feedback at review stages — a project cannot proceed past a review that has not happened.
- Confirmation that you hold the rights to any content, imagery, or trademarks you supply.
Intellectual property
On final payment, you own the custom code, designs, and content produced for your project outright, with no licensing restriction and no ongoing dependency.
This does not transfer ownership of third-party components — WordPress core, open-source libraries, purchased themes or plugins, and stock imagery remain under their own licences, which pass to you on their own terms.
Unless you ask otherwise, completed work may be shown as a portfolio case study on this site. If a project is confidential, say so and it will either be omitted or presented anonymously, as with the NDA-covered work already published here.
Hosting, domains, and third-party services
Hosting and domain registration are paid directly to those providers and registered in your name, so you own and control them. Third-party subscriptions a project depends on — Shopify plans, premium plugin licences, AI platform usage — are likewise billed by those providers and are not included in a build quote.
Those services are outside the control of this business, and their availability, pricing, and terms are set by them.
Warranties and support
Delivered work is checked against the agreed scope and tested across current mainstream browsers and standard breakpoints before launch. A post-launch support window is included to resolve defects that surface in real use.
That window covers defects in the delivered work. It does not cover changes caused by third-party updates, edits made by you or another developer, hosting failures, or new feature requests — those are quoted separately.
Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, liability arising from a project is limited to the fees paid for that project. No liability is accepted for indirect or consequential losses, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption.
Nothing in these terms limits liability where it cannot lawfully be limited.
Cancellation
Either party may end an engagement in writing. Work completed up to that point is chargeable, and any deposit is applied against it. Where completed work exceeds the deposit, the difference is invoiced; where it does not, the remainder is returned.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, where the business is based. Where a project is contracted through Upwork or Fiverr, that platform's terms govern the engagement in the first instance.
Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated, with the revised version published on this page and the date at the top changed. The terms that apply to a project are the ones in force when its written quote was agreed.