The following Terms and Conditions of Service apply to all products and services provided by 4C Creatives.
All work is carried out by 4C CREATIVES on the understanding that the client has agreed to 4C CREATIVES terms and conditions.
Copyright is retained by 4C CREATIVES on all design work including words, pictures, ideas, visuals and illustrations unless specifically released in writing and after all costs have been settled. If a choice of design is presented, only one solution is deemed to be given by 4C CREATIVES as fulfilling the contract. All other designs remain the property of 4C CREATIVES, unless agreed in writing that this arrangement has been changed.
Project Acceptance
At the time of proposal, 4C CREATIVES will provide the customer with a written estimate or quotation. The Terms and Conditions can be read on the 4C CREATIVES website.
A copy of the written estimate or quotation is to be signed and dated by the customer to indicate acceptance and should be returned to 4C CREATIVES. Alternatively, the client may send an official order in reply to the estimate or quotation, which binds the client to accept 4C CREATIVES terms and conditions, or an email- acknowledging acceptance of the quotation. No work on a project will commence until 4C CREATIVES have received acceptance of the quotation.
Graphic Design Charges
Charges for graphic design services to be provided by 4C CREATIVES will be set out in the written estimate or quotation that is provided to the customer. At the time of the customer’s signed acceptance of this estimate or quotation, indicating acceptance of the Terms & Conditions, a non-refundable deposit of 50% of the quoted fee will become immediately due. Work on the project will not commence until 4C CREATIVES have received this amount.
Web Design Charges
Charges for web design services to be provided by 4C CREATIVES will be set out in the written estimate or quotation that is provided to the customer. At the time of the customer’s signed acceptance of this estimate or quotation, indicating acceptance of the Terms & Conditions, a non-refundable deposit of 30% of the quoted fee will become immediately due. Work on the project will not commence until 4C CREATIVES have received this amount.
Charges for Other Services
Charges for any additional services over and above the estimated design will become fully payable (100% of the quoted amount) at the time of estimate or quotation acceptance.
Payment
The customer will be provided with an Invoice prior to final publication. At this time the remainder of the amount due will become payable and the customer will also be required to sign and return or email the approval to 4C CREATIVES. Accounts, which remain outstanding for 30 days after the date of invoice, will incur an extra charge of 2% per month of the outstanding amount.
Payments may be made by electronic funds transfer.
Publication and/or release of work done by 4C CREATIVES on behalf of the client, may not take place before cleared funds have been received.
Default
An account shall be considered default if it remains unpaid for 30 days from the date of invoice. 4C CREATIVES shall be considered entitled to remove 4C CREATIVES and/or the customer’s material from any and all computer systems, until the amount due has been fully paid. This includes any and all unpaid monies due for services, including, but not limited to, hosting, domain registration, search engine submission, design and maintenance, sub-contractors, printers, photographers and libraries.
Removal of such materials does not relieve the customer of its obligation to pay the due amount. Customers whose accounts become default agree to pay 4C CREATIVES reasonable legal expenses and third party collection agency fees in the enforcement of these Terms and Conditions.
Copyrights and Trademarks
By supplying text, images and other data to 4C CREATIVES for inclusion in the customer’s website or other medium, the customer declares that it holds the appropriate copyright and/or trademark permissions. The ownership of such materials will remain with the customer, or rightful copyright or trademark owner.
Any artwork, images, or text supplied and/or designed by 4C CREATIVES on behalf of the customer, will remain the property of 4C CREATIVES and/or its suppliers.
The customer may request in writing from 4C CREATIVES, the necessary permission to use materials (for which 4C CREATIVES holds the copyright) in forms other than for which it was originally supplied, and 4C CREATIVES may, at its discretion, grant this. Such permission must be obtained in writing before it will allow any of the aforesaid artwork, images, text, or other data to be used.
By supplying images, text, or any other data to 4C CREATIVES, the customer grants 4C CREATIVES permission to use this material freely in the pursuit of the design.
Should 4C CREATIVES, or the customer supply an image, text, audio clip or any other file for use in a website, multimedia presentation, print item, exhibition, advertisement or any other medium believing it to be copyright and royalty free, which subsequently emerges to have such copyright or royalty usage limitations, the customer will agree to allow 4C CREATIVES to remove and/or replace the file on the site.
The customer agrees to fully indemnify and hold 4C CREATIVES free from harm in any and all claims resulting from the customer in not having obtained all the required copyright, and/or any other necessary permission.
Alterations
The customer agrees that changes required over and above the estimated work or required to be carried out after acceptance of the draft design will be liable to a separate charge.
The customer also agrees that 4C CREATIVES holds no responsibility for any amendments made by any third party, before or after a design is published.
Licensing
Any design, copywriting, drawing, idea or code created for the customer by 4C CREATIVES, or any of its contractors, is licensed for use by the client on a one-time only basis and may not be modified, re-used, or re-distributed in any way or form without the express written consent of 4C CREATIVES and any of its relevant sub-contractors.
All design work – where there is a risk that another party make a claim, should be registered by the client with the appropriate authorities prior to publishing or first use or searches and legal advice sought as to its use. 4C CREATIVES will not be held responsible for any and all damages resulting from such claims. 4C CREATIVES are not responsible for any loss, or consequential loss, non-delivery of products or services, of whatever cause. The customer agrees not to hold 4C CREATIVES responsible for any such loss or damage. Any claim against 4C CREATIVES shall be limited to the relevant fee(s) paid by the customer.
Data Formats
The client agrees to 4C CREATIVES definition of acceptable means of supplying data to the company. Text is to be supplied to 4C CREATIVES in electronic format as standard text (.txt), MS Word (.doc) on CD- ROM, or via e-mail.
Images which are supplied in an electronic format are to be provided in a format as prescribed by 4C CREATIVES via CD-ROM, or e-mail / FTP. Images must be of a quality suitable for use without any subsequent image processing, and 4C CREATIVES will not be held responsible for any image quality which the client later deems to be unacceptable. 4C CREATIVES cannot be held responsible for the quality of any images, which the client wishes to be scanned from printed materials.
Additional expenses may be incurred for any necessary action, including, but not limited to, photography and art direction, photography searches, media conversion, digital image processing, or data entry services, colour correction and alteration of images.
Design Project Duration
Any indication given by 4C CREATIVES of a design project’s duration is to be considered by the customer to be an estimation. 4C CREATIVES cannot be held responsible for any project over-runs, whatever the cause. Estimated project duration should be deemed to be from the date that cleared funds are received by 4C CREATIVES for the initial payment or by date confirmed in writing by 4C CREATIVES.
Rights of Access for Website Construction
The client agrees to allow 4C CREATIVES all necessary access to computer systems and other locations, as required, in order to complete a website project and until all due funds are cleared, including the necessary read/write permissions, usernames and passwords. The customer also agrees to allow 4C CREATIVES access to any computer systems, usernames and passwords required to remove data and/or sites for failure to comply with these Terms and Conditions.
The customer agrees to supply 4C CREATIVES with all necessary materials, electronic, or otherwise, required to create and complete the project, and to supply them in a timely manner.
Design Project Completion
4C CREATIVES consider the design project complete upon receipt of the customer’s approval. Other services such as printing, display panel production, film work, website uploading, publishing etc either contracted on the clients behalf constitute a separate project and can be treated as a separate charge.
Website design only
4C CREATIVES require that the customer approve a template before coding of a site commences. Once the template(s) for the web site are approved by the customer, coding will commence; any changes to navigation items, colours, structure or content that require changes to the template will incur an additional charge.
Once web design is complete, 4C CREATIVES will provide the customer with the opportunity to review the resulting work. 4C CREATIVES will make one set of minor changes at no extra cost within 14 days of the start of the review period. Minor changes include small textual changes and small adjustments to placement of items on the page. It does not include changes to images, colour schemes or any navigation features. Any minor changes can be notified to 4C CREATIVES by e-mail and confirmed by post.
4C CREATIVES will consider that the client has accepted the original draft, if no notification of changes is received in writing from the customer, within 14 days of the start of the review period.
Search Engine Submission
Due to the infinite number of considerations that search engines use when determining a site’s ranking, 4C CREATIVES cannot guarantee any particular placement. Acceptance by any search engine cannot be guaranteed and when a site is accepted, the time it takes to appear in search results varies from one search engine to another. Rankings will also vary as new sites are added. 4C CREATIVES recommend that customers use a professional SEO company and are happy to provide details of such companies, but accept no responsibility for their services.
Design Credits
The customer agrees to allow 4C CREATIVES to place a small credit on printed material exhibition displays, advertisements and/or a link to 4C CREATIVES own website on the customer’s website. This will usually be in the form of a small logo or line of text placed towards the bottom of the page.
The customer also agrees to allow 4C CREATIVES to place websites and other designs, along with a link to the client’s site on 4C CREATIVES own website for demonstration purposes and to use any designs in its own publicity and portfolios.
Rights of Refusal
4C CREATIVES will not include in its designs, any text, images or other data, which it deems to be immoral, offensive, obscene or illegal. All advertising material must conform to all standards laid down by all relevant advertising standards authorities. 4C CREATIVES also reserve the right to refuse to include submitted material without giving reason. In the situation where any images and/or data that 4C CREATIVES does include in all good faith, and subsequently discovers is in contravention to such Terms and Conditions, the customer is obliged to allow 4C CREATIVES to remove the contravention without hindrance, or penalty. 4C CREATIVES are to be held in no way responsible for any such data being included.
Cancellation
Cancellation of orders may be made initially by telephone contact, or e-mail, however, following this, 4C CREATIVES will need formal notification in writing to the company’s postal address. The client will then be invoiced for all work completed over and above the non-refundable deposit that will have been made at the time of first ordering. The balance of monies due must be paid within 30 days. Please note: any cancellation which is not formally confirmed in writing and received by 4C CREATIVES within 14 days of such instruction being issued, will be liable for the full quoted cost of the project.
Disclaimer
4C CREATIVES make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, for any and all products and/or services that it supplies. 4C CREATIVES will not be held responsible for any and all damages resulting from products and/or services it supplies. 4C CREATIVES are not responsible for any loss, or consequential loss of data, or non-delivery of products or services, of whatever cause. While we take reasonable steps to investigate the materials we recommend, we accept no responsibility for the performance or quality of materials or any consequential loss arising from their failure. The customer agrees not to hold 4C CREATIVES responsible for any such loss or damage. Any claim against 4C CREATIVES shall be limited to the relevant fee(s) paid by the customer.
4C CREATIVES reserves the right to use the services of sub-contractors, agents and suppliers and any work, content, services and usage is bound by their Terms and Conditions. 4C CREATIVES will not knowingly perform any actions to contravene these and the client also agrees to be so bound.
4C CREATIVES and its clients agree to comply with Printers Terms and Conditions, which include disclaimers for non-completion on time and the flexibility to supply quantities within 10% of the total, ordered. 4C CREATIVES recommend that if an exact quantity is required, then 10% extra be added to the quantity and extra time made available should the job be delayed.
General
These Terms and Conditions supersede any previous Terms and Conditions distributed in any form. 4C CREATIVES reserve the right to change any rates and any of the Terms and Conditions at any time and without prior notice.
Acceptance of Quotation and Terms and Conditions
The placement of an order for design and/or any other services offered by 4C CREATIVES and validated by the customer’s signature on the estimate or quotation form, constitutes acceptance of the estimate or quotation and agreement to comply fully with all the Terms and Conditions and forms a Contract for Business between the signatory and 4C CREATIVES.