1. Scope and definitions
The website ariedev.online presents services offered under the ArieDev brand. In these Terms, the person or entity providing the services is the “Provider” and the person or entity purchasing or requesting them is the “Client”.
These Terms govern use of the website and, unless special terms are stated in an accepted quotation, order, contract, statement of work, or separate agreement, the provision of software consulting, design, software development, websites, applications, integrations, automation, maintenance, and related services.
If documents conflict, the following order of precedence applies: the accepted contract or quotation; any technical schedules; these Terms. Mandatory provisions of applicable law always prevail.
2. Acceptance of the Terms
Using the website does not by itself create a development contract. A contract is formed when the Client accepts the Provider’s proposal in writing, pays a requested initial amount, signs an order, or otherwise clearly accepts the applicable commercial and technical terms.
Anyone accepting on behalf of an organization represents that they have authority to bind it. The Client is responsible for reviewing all contractual documents before acceptance.
3. Quotes, validity, and scope
Unless stated otherwise, quotations remain valid for 15 days. Prices, availability, and estimated schedules may be revised after expiry.
The proposal includes only the activities, features, integrations, environments, delivery formats, and revision rounds expressly listed. Anything not expressly included is excluded. Mockups, preliminary estimates, informal conversations, demonstrations, and assumptions are not contractual commitments unless incorporated into the accepted proposal.
The Provider may refuse work that is unlawful, technically unreasonable, incompatible with available capacity, or inconsistent with professional policies.
4. Fees, taxes, and payments
Fees are those stated in the proposal and exclude taxes, bank charges, licenses, hosting, domains, third-party services, and expenses unless expressly included.
The Client must pay deposits and installments according to the agreed schedule. Initial payments reserve production capacity and are allocated to planning, analysis, work commenced, and capacity committed. Refundability is governed by the Refund Policy and any mandatory law.
If payment is late, the Provider may, after notice where required, suspend work, access, releases, support, and delivery. The schedule will move by at least the duration of the suspension plus any reasonable remobilization period. Final files, credentials, licenses, or rights due under the contract are transferred only after all amounts due have been paid in full.
5. Timing, dependencies, and Client obligations
Dates are estimates unless expressly identified in writing as binding deadlines. The schedule depends on timely Client cooperation and the availability of third-party services.
The Client must provide lawful and complete content, access, credentials, approvals, feedback, and decisions. Delays, fragmented responses, changes in decision-makers, unavailable environments, or missed payments automatically justify a revised schedule.
The Client warrants that it has the necessary rights and permissions for all text, images, trademarks, data, software, and materials it supplies and, to the extent permitted by law, will indemnify the Provider against third-party claims arising from Client materials or instructions.
6. Changes and out-of-scope requests
Requests that change requirements, approved design, logic, integrations, content volume, compatibility, priorities, or acceptance criteria are change requests. The Provider may issue a separate estimate for price and time and has no obligation to begin the additional work before written acceptance.
Correction of reproducible defects against accepted specifications is not a change request. New preferences, enhancements, optimization, changes caused by third-party services, and undocumented behavior are additional work unless expressly included.
7. Delivery, review, and acceptance
The Client must review each milestone or delivery within 5 business days unless a different period is agreed, and must identify specific, reproducible issues by reference to the accepted specifications. General dissatisfaction, preference changes, or new requests do not suspend acceptance.
A milestone is deemed accepted when the Client confirms acceptance, uses the deliverable in production, requests work on the next milestone, fails to provide a valid rejection within the review period, or otherwise acts in a manner inconsistent with rejection, to the extent permitted by law.
After acceptance, later changes, enhancements, updates, compatibility work, and issues caused by external systems are chargeable unless covered by an express warranty or maintenance agreement.
8. Suspension, inactivity, and termination
The Provider may suspend performance for overdue payment, missing information, security risk, unlawful instructions, abusive conduct, or Client breach. The Provider is not responsible for resulting delays or consequences caused by the suspension where the suspension is justified.
If the Client remains inactive or fails to provide required materials for more than 30 days, the Provider may place the project on hold, reallocate capacity, revise the schedule and pricing, and require payment of completed work before resumption.
Either party may terminate for material breach not cured within a reasonable written cure period, unless immediate termination is justified by law or the nature of the breach. On termination, the Client must pay for work performed, committed third-party costs, and other non-cancellable obligations accrued up to termination.
9. Intellectual property and licenses
Until full payment, all deliverables and project materials remain the Provider’s property or are licensed only for review purposes. After full payment, the Client receives only the ownership or usage rights expressly identified in the accepted proposal.
Pre-existing code, frameworks, libraries, methods, know-how, reusable components, generic utilities, development tools, templates, and third-party materials remain the property of their respective owners. The Provider may reuse general knowledge, skills, non-confidential techniques, and reusable components that do not disclose Client confidential information.
Open-source and third-party components remain subject to their own licenses. The Client must comply with those licenses where applicable.
10. Hosting, domains, APIs, and third-party services
Hosting providers, domain registries, payment processors, APIs, app stores, cloud platforms, plugins, libraries, and other third parties operate independently. Their pricing, availability, terms, technical behavior, security measures, and policies may change without the Provider’s control.
Unless separately commissioned, the Client is responsible for third-party accounts, renewals, billing, backups, compliance, and provider terms. The Provider does not guarantee indefinite compatibility with systems changed after delivery.
11. Limited warranties and maintenance
The Provider will perform the services with reasonable professional care and in substantial conformity with accepted specifications. Unless expressly agreed, the Provider does not guarantee commercial results, search rankings, revenue, absolute security, uninterrupted availability, or compatibility with future changes to devices, browsers, platforms, or external services.
Any defect warranty is limited to reproducible non-conformities reported within the written warranty period, if one is stated in the accepted proposal. The warranty excludes misuse, unauthorized changes, third-party failures, outdated dependencies, unsupported environments, and changes made after acceptance.
Maintenance, monitoring, backups, security updates, content updates, and ongoing support are not included unless expressly stated.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Provider is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of business opportunity, reputational damage, loss of data, or business interruption arising from the services or third-party systems.
Except for fraud, willful misconduct, personal injury, and liabilities that cannot lawfully be limited, the Provider’s total aggregate liability arising from a particular engagement will not exceed the amount actually paid by the Client for the specific phase or service that gave rise to the claim during the six months preceding the event.
The Client is responsible for maintaining independent backups of business-critical data and for reviewing deliverables before production use. Any limitation applies only to the extent valid under applicable mandatory law.
13. Confidentiality, security, and portfolio use
Each party must protect confidential information received from the other and use it only for the engagement, except where disclosure is required by law or reasonably necessary to professional advisers and service providers bound by appropriate duties.
Unless the contract or a written confidentiality obligation says otherwise, the Provider may identify the Client and display non-confidential, publicly released work in a portfolio after public launch. The Client may object in writing before publication where confidentiality is required.
The Client must protect credentials, access tokens, and administrative accounts and must promptly notify the Provider of suspected compromise.
14. Consumer clients and withdrawal rights
Where the Client qualifies as a consumer, mandatory consumer-protection law applies and overrides any conflicting provision in these Terms.
If a statutory withdrawal period applies to a distance contract, the consumer may exercise that right within the applicable period. If the consumer expressly requests that services begin during the withdrawal period, the consumer may be required to pay a proportionate amount for services already performed. The right may be lost after complete performance where the law permits this and the required express request and acknowledgement have been obtained.
Digital content not supplied on a tangible medium may be subject to separate rules regarding immediate performance and loss of withdrawal rights where the legal requirements are satisfied.
15. Governing law, forum, and final provisions
The governing law and competent forum are those identified in the accepted proposal or contract. If no specific clause is agreed, the relationship is governed by the law applicable to the Provider’s establishment, without prejudice to mandatory consumer rights and mandatory conflict-of-law rules.
For business clients, to the extent legally enforceable, disputes are subject to the courts competent for the Provider’s establishment unless the accepted contract states otherwise. Consumer clients retain any mandatory jurisdiction rights.
If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in force. Failure to enforce a right immediately is not a waiver. Electronic communications and accepted electronic documents may be used as evidence to the extent permitted by law.