Name: Web Team Adelaide
Address: 14 Company St, Semaphore, SA, 5019, AU
Telephone: +1300970930
Price range: $$$

Terms of Service
Please read through and familiarise yourself with these Terms of Service and feel free to contact us to clarify anything which is not clear. These terms outline various aspects of building a website, providing support, training and marketing services, terms of payment as well as information about hosting & email services.

Website Build

Design
Design is typically either done in-house by Web Team Adelaide, or by an external designer working closely us. If you are working with an external designer, your agreement is between you and that person.

You will be able to modify your design with a reasonable number of revisions (determined by the design package you have and/or the designer's terms), however once a design has been approved and the build process begins, changes may attract an additional design and or development cost. This is why it is important to be actively involved in the the preliminary planning and design phase, as this is where changes and amendments are easy to make.

Content
Website content, including images, words, names of menu items, videos and so on, need to be provided by you, unless you have participated in a discovery and planning process as part of our services.
We will let you know what format we need the content provided in (e.g. word documents, image formats). We do offer content creation and editing services, and also have a great photographer if you need some photographs taken.

We need to receive your draft content prior to design (so designer can incorporate your logo, images and words), and final content is due one week after development starts.

It is your responsibility to ensure that the content you provide us with does not breach copyright, is free of spelling mistakes and is grammatically correct.

Copyright
You must affirm that you have permission to use all content you provide us with.

Additions, Changes and Work Requests
Once a project build has started, additions and changes will need to be charged for (unless they are minor).

Additions to the original brief will also be quoted on separately. Generally, the original brief as agreed and approved will need to be completed prior to working on additions, in order to keep within project timeframe, or an adjustment is made to the agreement to extend the timeframe.

Occasionally, a requirement quoted on is not able to be delivered due to factors outside our control (eg. a bug in the system, new details of a requirement are relayed after site build has started). In this instance, options will be discussed with you and may involve refunding for that element or researching alternative ways of meeting the need. This may involve an additional cost, or a partial refund.

Project Delays
Web Team Adelaide is not liable for delays outside our control, however will inform you as soon as there is reason to believe there may be a delay.

Where projects are held up by content or information needed from you to complete the project, Web Team Adelaide may have to update timelines - as we allocate blocks of time for development which then have to be re-booked if we don't have what we need from you to continue the work. A 2 working day turnaround is what we believe is reasonable - if you do not feel this is possible, please let us know before the project starts as it will impact timelines and completion dates.

Where content is not supplied to us within 2 weeks of its due date and work on the project has had to be put on hold, a re-activation fee of $300 may be charged for the additional work needed to re-familiarise and reactivate the team who will have moved on to other projects.

Testing & Soft Launch
It is 'all hands on deck' when it comes to testing your website. While we test on a variety of Platforms (Mac & PC) and Browsers (i.e. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox & Safari), it is impossible to replicate every possible environment in which your website will be viewed. You also have the option of having your website optimised for Tablets and Smart Phones - however this is an additional service. Your website will work on these devices but will not necessarily look exactly the same as on a laptop or desktop computer.

A Soft Launch is when a website is made live, but it is not yet being promoted. Please allow sufficient time for testing at this stage prior to any major publicity launches, so any issues and bugs can be ironed out. This is a good time to show it to family and friends and to pick up on anything which has not been noticed by those working on the site closely.

You will also need to read through the content, and check that all the forms are working as you want them to, that the right message is being sent to clients and that workflows such as payment processing and order fulfilment make sense to you.

Guarantee
Any errors which are caused by our work will be fixed free of charge (naturally!) Please report these via our support email as soon as possible. After a website is released to you, we ask that you go through it thoroughly so you can sign off everything is working. Bugs / errors need to be reported within 30 days of a website going live unless the error is obscure and could not reasonably have been discovered during this time period.

Issues / mistakes caused by you can also be fixed at your request and will be charged at our casual support rate, or managed as part of a support package.

Bugs and issues not caused by us will be charged at our casual support rate, or managed as part of a pre-paid support package.

Hosting & Email
Our websites are hosted on a variety of Software As Service platforms, or on servers, in the case of WordPress.

Hosting with Software As Service Platforms
We currently use Siteglide, Wix and Simvoly and Shopify SaaS platforms.
You will need to agree to their respective terms of use.

Web Team Adelaide is not liable for any hosting related issues, or by any bugs within any SaaS platform; however we have chosen these platforms as a result of its stability and reliability.

The hosted platform model means that security is continually upgraded. In additions, new features and upgrading functionality occurs each month.

Cancellation of Hosting
We require 30 days notice in writing if you wish to cancel your hosting agreement. Refunds for payments which have been processed are generally not refunded by these providers, so please ensure you respond to our annual hosting invoice as soon as possible if you do not intend to keep your site going for another year.

Email

We can organise your email hosting if required. All email hosting services are provided by third parties which we can set up and manage for you.

Web Team Adelaide can help with instructions to set up your mail, and can help troubleshoot and provide support via our support services to get your mail working. Once email is set up and successfully accessed via web mail, this indicates that the setup on the mail servers is functioning correctly.

There are however, factors outside our control which impact on email functionality, such as deliverability to some email accounts, difficulty with local setup on PC's and mobile devices, local ISP protocols, and firewalls/spam protection levels which certain organisations or individuals may put in place.

While in the vast majority of cases there are no issues at all, occasionally we need to refer complex issues to an email troubleshooting specialist. This falls outside the scope of our area of service & corresponding support packages.

We will however provide a referral to a recommended specialist.

WordPress Hosting
For new websites, we arrange hosting for you with our in-house WordPress hosting provider. You will get access to log into your cPanel and website hosting account if required. This includes updating WordPress core within a few days of a new release, and update most plugins monthly (with the exception of some like Woo Commerce which require more care - however we would discuss maintenance of these with you).
When we take on an existing website on an external host, we may make an assessment and recommendation based on that hosting provider. A hosting environment is fundamental to a website's performance, and if we feel where you are hosted is detrimental to your website, we will let you know. If your hosting service and website are running smoothly, then we would not recommend making a change.
In our experience, most people referred to us are having issues which relate in part to the hosting service or environment.

Other Services
Support, Training & Work Requests
Web Team Adelaide provide ongoing services by way of support, training and work requests. The following are definitions of each type of service:

Support - you have an issue which you need our help with
End user support - helping your client/staff with an issue on your website
Training - you want us to show you how to do something
Work Request - you would like us to make some additions or changes to the website for you.

Unless you are on a pre-paid support package, support requests, including investigations into issues which you ask us to look into, will be charged at our standard rates. We can cancel a request for work at any time, but time spent on this on your behalf will be charged for.

Please look at our Support Packages to see the various options and packages available.

Marketing
If you are using your website as a marketing tool, or for selling online, having a website is just the beginning of an ongoing process of marketing and promoting your business.

You will receive information about what marketing activities you can do, or what marketing services we can help you with when your website is launched.

It is important to let you know that search engine optimisation, listing your website in google and bing and setting up email templates and campaigns are all important additional things you can do to help with your marketing efforts, and we encourage you to familiarise yourself with this to do the basics yourself, or you can ask us to do this for you.

Marketing activities are the 'fuel' you need to drive traffic to and awareness of your business.

Invoicing and Payments
Payment Schedule
Most website projects have a planning, design and build stage. Payment milestones will relate to each of these stages, and are as follows:

Planning & Design - wireframe / blueprint for each web page, which you approve, followed by website design. This is invoiced on acceptance of project, and required prior to start. A 50% deposit is required to start.

Website Build - this is invoiced in a further 2 stages. 30% payment is required when the website is initially released to you on the development domain, and the final 20% on completion* of the project.

Website Hosting - This is due on completion of project, and must be paid in advance prior to your website going live.
Payments are generally made annually from this date, though we can occasionally arrange monthly payments.

If your project falls outside this standard process, you will have received a separate email outlining payment terms.

* 'completion' means that the work on completing your website from our side is done. If you have content which you have not yet provided your final invoice for development and hosting will still be due and your content will be added once it is provided to us.

We cannot make a website live until final payments has been received, so please request for your invoice to be sent early if there is a tight deadline on your project.

Support Packages, Marketing and Work Requests
Marketing and Support Packages are invoiced in advance unless you choose to be invoiced at our Casual rates. Additional Work Requests payment term are 50% deposit, and 50% on completion.

Payment Terms
Payment terms are 7 days, but please be aware that a deposit is required to start project build, and full payment prior to a site going live. Please contact hello@webteamadelaide.com.au no later than the account due date if you are unable to pay on the due date.

Overdue Payments - Website development
Unless alternative arrangements have been made, if a payment has not been received 15 days after when it is due, we reserve the right to suspend ongoing work until full payment of the outstanding balance has been made. Web Team Adelaide will not be liable for any loss or damage the Client suffers as a result of Web Team Adelaide exercising its rights under this clause.

Further, Web Team Adelaide also reserve the right to restrict access to the website administration portal and/or user permissions within the system if payment is overdue and repayment arrangements have not been made and/or adhered to.

Late Payment Policy

While we understand that it is possible to overlook invoices, we have occasionally had instances where payments for hosting, domain renewals, or email hosting require continued follow up to ensure payment.

Where this has occurred on more than three occasions, we will

suspend the services which have not been paid for and
charge an administration fee of $55 + gst (per instance) in order to reinstate services which have been suspended

Your service will be reinstated once both the administration and original service fee has been paid. While we do our best to reinstate your service as soon as practicably possible after the invoice has been paid, please be aware that some changes take a couple of days to take effect, even after we have made the changes.

The best way to avoid any suspension of your services is to ensure payments are made on time.

Should we need to implement this policy, in the first instance we will provide you with 7 days notice, however if future late payments continue we will suspend the website with no further notice.

Liability
Web Team Adelaide's liability is limited to the total cost paid for website design, development and hosting costs.