Terms & Conditions

These terms cover two things: using this website, and engaging Vyda to design, build, host, or maintain a website or app for you.

Using this website means you accept the terms in this document. Engaging us for work means you accept them as the baseline for that work. If we send you a written proposal or quote and anything in it conflicts with this page, the proposal wins for that project.

Nothing here is legal advice, and this page is not a substitute for a signed agreement on a large project. If your project needs one, ask and we will put one in front of you.

Every project starts with a free sketch: we design a preview of your homepage and send it to you before any money changes hands.

The sketch is genuinely free and genuinely without obligation. You are not committed to anything by requesting one, and we will not invoice you for it.

Until you engage us and pay for the build, the sketch and its design remain our property. You are welcome to look at it, think about it, and show it to your business partner. You may not hand it to another developer to reproduce.

We reserve the right to decline to produce a sketch, for any reason, including that we are simply full.

We do not publish fixed prices, because a one-page site and a restaurant with online ordering are not the same job. You receive a written quote for your specific scope after you complete the project form.

Work is priced as a one-time build fee plus a recurring monthly fee that covers hosting, maintenance, security updates, backups, and small content changes.

The build fee is payable as agreed in your quote. The monthly fee starts when your site goes live and continues until you cancel.

Quoted prices are exclusive of applicable taxes unless the quote says otherwise. Fees already paid are non-refundable except where required by law.

We will design and build the site described in your quote, to a professional standard, and keep you informed as we go.

We will host it, keep the software patched, take regular backups, and make the small content changes covered by your plan without billing you by the hour for a phone number change.

We aim to keep sites available continuously, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Hosting providers have outages, domain registrars have problems, and the internet occasionally breaks. We will fix what is ours to fix, as quickly as we reasonably can.

Substantial new work outside the agreed scope, such as new pages, new features, or a redesign, is quoted separately before we start it.

Projects stall on content far more often than on code. To keep yours moving, you agree to:

• Give us accurate information about your business, and tell us when it changes
• Supply text, photographs, logos, and menus in a reasonable timeframe
• Give feedback and approvals at the points we ask for them
• Confirm that you own, or have permission to use, everything you send us
• Keep your account details and any passwords we give you secure

If a project goes quiet on your side for more than 90 days we may treat it as paused, and we may need to requote it when you come back.

Your content is yours. Text, photographs, logos, and anything else you supply remain your property, and you keep all rights in them. You grant us permission to use them for the purpose of building and running your site.

The finished design and the content of your site are yours once the build is paid for. If you ever leave, we will hand over the site files and help you move, and we will not hold your work hostage.

The underlying tools, components, frameworks, and techniques we use to build sites remain ours, and we reuse them across projects. You are buying your site, not exclusive rights to our toolkit.

Unless you ask us not to, we may show your site in our portfolio and describe the work we did on it.

You may not use a site we host to publish unlawful content, to infringe intellectual property, to distribute malware, to send unsolicited bulk email, or to deceive people.

We may suspend or remove a site that breaches this, and where it is safe and lawful to do so we will tell you why first.

The design, code, text, and images on this website belong to Vyda, except for screenshots of client sites, which belong to those clients and are shown with their knowledge.

Links to client sites are provided so you can see real work. We do not control those sites day to day and are not responsible for their content.

This website is provided as-is. We try hard to keep it accurate, but we make no warranty that everything on it is complete or current.

You can cancel your monthly plan at any time by emailing us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing month, and we will not charge you again after that.

We can end an engagement with 30 days written notice, or immediately if fees go unpaid for more than 30 days or if the acceptable use section above is breached.

When an engagement ends, we will provide an export of your site files on request. Hosting stops at the end of the paid period, so please arrange somewhere for the site to live before then.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Subject to that, our total liability in connection with any project is limited to the fees you have paid us for that project in the 12 months before the claim.

We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost business, or loss of data, even if we were told such loss was possible.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of British Columbia have jurisdiction over any dispute.

Before anyone involves a court, we would much rather you emailed us. Most things are a misunderstanding and take one conversation to fix.

We may update these terms. The version published here at the time you engage us is the version that applies to that engagement, and we will change the date at the top whenever we revise it.

Questions about anything on this page: vydawebsites@gmail.com.