Finsbury Website Product Terms

The following terms and conditions apply to all services, including website development and design services, (the Services) provided by Finsbury Media CITM Limited (Finsbury Media) to the Client, in conjunction with any relevant quotation provided to the Client by Finsbury Media (Terms), unless otherwise agreed in writing. Acceptance of a quote, purchase and/or use of the Services shall be considered acceptance of the Terms.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THESE PRODUCT TERMS AND/ OR THE SERVICE AT ANY TIME.

1. Charges

Charges for the Services are defined in the project quotation that the Client receives from Finsbury Media via email. Quotations are valid for a period of 30 days. Finsbury Media reserves the right to alter a quotation or decline to provide the relevant Services after expiry of the 30 days.

Unless agreed otherwise with the Client, all our website design services require an advance payment of a minimum of fifty (50) percent of the project quotation total before the work commences. A second payment of fifty (50) percent is required after the client review and design sign off stage, with the remaining percentage of the project quotation total due upon completion of the work, prior to upload to the server or release of materials.

The Client agrees to reimburse Finsbury Media for any additional expenses necessary for the completion of the work. Expenses may include (but are not limited to) purchase of domain names, plugins, special fonts, stock photography and stock videos.

All Charges are exclusive of VAT.

2. Invoicing and payment

Finsbury Media shall submit invoices in line with the timescales above. Invoices are sent via email, but hard copy invoices are available on request. Payment is due on receipt of the invoice by the Client.

Payment for services is made by bank transfer. Our Bank details are shown on invoices. Direct Debit (by Gocardless) is available – please contact us to arrange this method.

If the Client fails to make any payment due to Finsbury Media by the due date, without limiting Finsbury Media’s remedies under or in connection with these terms and conditions, the Client shall pay interest on the overdue amount at the rate of 4% per annum above the Bank of England’s base rate from time to time. Such interest shall accrue on a daily basis from the due date until actual payment of the overdue amount, whether before or after judgement. The Client shall pay the interest together with the overdue amount.

Accounts unpaid thirty (30) days after the date of invoice will be considered in default. If the Client in default maintains any information or files on Finsbury Media’s web space, Finsbury Media will, at its discretion, remove all such material from its web space. Finsbury Media is not responsible for any loss of data incurred due to the removal of the service. Removal of such material does not relieve the Client of the obligation to pay any outstanding charges assessed to the Client’s account. Clients with accounts in default agree to pay Finsbury Media reasonable expenses, including legal fees and costs for collection by third-party agencies incurred by Finsbury Media in enforcing these Terms.

Balances left outstanding for one hundred and eighty (180) days or more may lead to project termination and the full balance will become due

Late or non-payments for one hundred and eighty (180) days will result in the suspension of the client website and all services will cease.

3. Client Review

Finsbury Media will provide the Client with an opportunity to review the appearance and content of the website during the design phase and once the overall website development is completed. Finsbury Media will endeavour to seek for Client’s approval in writing at every milestone. When amendments are sent by Client, Finsbury Media are to be given time to schedule amendment tasks in and will inform Client date of completion for next review. If Client does not notify Finsbury Media in advance of any delays in providing feedback or amends within ten (10 days), Finsbury Media reserves the right to put Client’s website project on hold until we receive the next feedback.

Finsbury Media will endeavour to help reschedule website project back into workflow. Finsbury Media will advise on the next suitable date with Client to resume website project after checking on the current workload.

After one hundred and eighty days (180 days) of inactivity from Client, the remaining balance of the website project will become due. This will need to be settled upfront before Finsbury Media can reschedule website project back into workflow. Finsbury Media reserves the right to close Client’s website project account.

4. Turnaround Time and Content Control

Finsbury Media will install and publicly post or supply the Client’s website by the date specified in the project proposal, or at the date agreed with Client upon Finsbury Media receiving initial payment, unless a delay is specifically requested by the Client and agreed by Finsbury Media.

In return, the Client agrees to provide Finsbury Media promptly with all necessary co-operation, information, materials and data, access to staff and timely decision-making which may be reasonably required by Finsbury Media for the performance of the Services. This shall include the Client delegating a single individual as a primary contact to aid Finsbury Media with progressing the commission in a satisfactory and expedient manner.

During the project, Finsbury Media will require the Client to provide website content; text, images, movies and sound files, along with any relevant background information.

5. Failure to provide required website content

Finsbury Media is a small business, and to remain efficient we must ensure that work we have programmed is carried out at the scheduled time. On occasions we may have to reject offers for other work and enquiries to ensure that your work is completed at the time arranged.

This is why we ask that the Client provides all the required information in advance as defined during your onboarding call with us and will be documented in basecamp. Please refer to number 6 in this agreement. On any occasion where progress cannot be made with the Client’s website because we have not been given the required information in the agreed time frame, and we are delayed as result, we reserve the right to impose a surcharge of up to 25% of the Charges. If the Services involve Search Engine Optimisation we need the text content for the Client’s site in advance so that the SEO can be planned and completed efficiently.

If the Client agrees to provide us with the required information and subsequently fail to do within one week of project commencement we reserve the right to put the website project on hold. Our website on hold procedure will be applied as mentioned in Clause 3 of this agreement. Simply put, do not give us the go ahead to start until you are ready to do so.

NOTE: Text content must be delivered as a Microsoft Word, email (or similar) document with the pages in the supplied document representing the content of the relevant pages on your website. These pages must have the same titles as the agreed website pages. Contact us if you need clarification on this.

6. Communication

Finsbury Media uses Basecamp as the primary platform for communicating with all our clients. Guidance will be provided during onboarding call on best practice on using Basecamp. This allows our correspondence to be shared with all members of our team assigned to the project build. Online video call meetings and telephone calls are recommended to keep with project progress and are agreed in advance with each client preference. All online video calls are recorded for the purpose of allowing us to share web build updates and further tasks or amends to be done by our team. And anything else that may require further discussions to help with the project internally, Finsbury Media will only share this video recording with relevant team member(s) for problem-solving or advice. All recordings are handled according to our data retention policy which is available upon request.

7. Web Browsers

Finsbury Media makes every effort to ensure websites are designed to be viewed by the majority of visitors. Websites are designed to work with the latest version of the most popular browsers (e.g. Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari). The Client agrees that Finsbury Media cannot guarantee correct functionality with old, obsolete or obscure operating systems and web browsers. Unless specifically requested and agreed, this may be subject to additional fees.

Finsbury Media cannot accept responsibility for web pages which do not display acceptably in new versions of browsers released after the website has been designed and handed over to the Client. As such, Finsbury Media reserves the right to quote for any work involved in changing the website design or website code for it to work with updated browser software.

8. Termination

Termination of services by the Client must be requested in a written notice to cancellations@finsburymedia.com for our consideration. Telephone requests for termination of services will not be honoured until and unless confirmed in writing. The Client will be invoiced for work completed (including any expenses incurred, as outlined in clause 1) to the date of first notice of cancellation for payment in full within thirty (30) days. No release of any website artwork files or login access is permitted unless outstanding fees are settled in full by client.

9. Indemnity

All Finsbury Media services may be used for lawful purposes only. The Client agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Finsbury Media against all damages, losses and expenses arising as a result of any and all actions or claims resulting from the Client’s use of Finsbury Media’s service.

10. Intellectual property

Background IP means any IP Rights, other than Foreground IP, that is used in connection with these Terms.

Foreground IP means any IP Rights that arise or are obtained or developed by, or by a contractor on behalf of, either party in respect of the services and deliverables under or in connection with these Terms.

IP Rights means patents, utility models, rights to inventions, copyright and neighbouring and related rights, trade marks and service marks, business names and domain names, rights in get-up and trade dress, goodwill and the right to sue for passing off or unfair competition, rights in designs, database rights, rights to use, and protect the confidentiality of, confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets), and all other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications and rights to apply for and be granted, renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.

All Background IP, including but not limited to any IP Rights in data, files and graphic logos provided to Finsbury Media by the Client, is and shall remain the exclusive property of the party owning it (or, where applicable, the third party from whom its right to use the Background IP has derived).

The Client hereby grants to Finsbury Media a non-exclusive licence to publish and use such material, which may be sub-licensed to any contractor acting on behalf of Finsbury Media. The Client must obtain permission and rights to use any information or files that are copyrighted by a third party. The Client is further responsible for granting Finsbury Media permission and rights for use of the same. A contract for website design and/or placement shall be regarded as a guarantee by the Client to Finsbury Media that all such permissions and authorities have been obtained. Evidence of permissions and authorities may be requested. The Client shall indemnify and hold harmless Finsbury Media against all damages, losses and expenses arising as a result of any and all actions or claims that any materials provided to Finsbury Media by or on behalf of the Client infringe the IP Rights of a third party.

All Foreground IP shall vest in and be owned absolutely by the party creating or developing it. Finsbury Media hereby grants the Client a non-exclusive licence of such Foreground IP for the purpose of operating the website.

11. Confidentiality

Each party (the Receiving Party) shall use its reasonable endeavours to keep confidential all information and documentation disclosed by the other party (the Disclosing Party), before or after the date of these Terms, to the Receiving Party or of which the Receiving Party becomes aware which in each case relates to any software, operations, products, processes, dealings, trade secrets or the business of the Disclosing Party (including without limitation all associated software, specifications, designs and graphics) or which is identified by the Disclosing Party as confidential (the Confidential Information) and will not use any Confidential Information for any purpose other than the performance of its obligations under these Terms. The Receiving Party shall not disclose Confidential Information to any third party without the prior written consent of the Disclosing Party. This clause shall survive the termination of these Terms for whatever cause.

During the term of these Terms the Receiving Party may disclose the Confidential Information to its employees and sub-contractors (any such person being referred to as the Recipient) to the extent that it is reasonably necessary for the purposes of these Terms. The Receiving Party shall procure that each Recipient is made aware of and complies with all the Receiving Party’s obligations of confidentiality under these Terms as if the Recipient was a party to these Terms.

The obligations in this clause 10 shall not apply to any Confidential Information which is:

All tangible forms of Confidential Information, including, without limitation, all summaries, copies, excerpts of any Confidential Information whether prepared by the Disclosing Party or not, shall be the sole property of the Disclosing Party, and shall be immediately delivered by the Receiving Party to the Disclosing Party upon the Disclosing Party’s request or the termination of these Terms (whichever is earlier). The Receiving Party shall not copy, reproduce, publish or distribute in whole or in part any Confidential Information without the prior written consent of the Disclosing Party.

12. Data protection

For the purposes of this clause, Data Protection Law means the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the Data Protection Act 2018, any other data protection and/or privacy laws applicable to Finsbury Media, and any applicable laws replacing, amending, extending, re-enacting or consolidating the above from time to time.

Both parties will comply with all applicable requirements of Data Protection Law. This clause is in addition to, and does not relieve, remove or replace, a party’s obligations or rights under Data Protection Law.

The Client will comply with Data Protection Law in connection with the collection, storage and processing of personal data (which shall include you providing all the required fair processing information to, and obtaining all necessary consent from, data subjects), and the exercise and performance of your respective rights and obligations under these terms and conditions, including all instructions given by the Client to Finsbury Media and maintaining all relevant regulatory registrations and notifications as required under Data Protection Law.

The parties acknowledge that if Finsbury Media processes any personal data on the Client’s behalf when performing its obligations under this agreement, the Client is the controller and Finsbury Media is the processor for the purposes of Data Protection Law.

The scope, nature and purpose of processing by Finsbury Media, the duration of the processing and the types of personal data and categories of data subject are set out in our Privacy Notice and the project quotation.

In relation to the processing of personal data under these terms and conditions, Finsbury Media shall:

The Client hereby gives Finsbury Media consent to engage sub-processors for processing of personal data on your behalf. We shall inform the Client before transferring any personal data processed on your behalf to a new sub-processor. Following receipt of such information you shall notify us if you object to the new sub-processor. If you do not object to the sub-processor within seven calendar days of receiving the information, you shall be deemed to have accepted the sub-processor. If you have raised a reasonable objection to the new sub-processor, and the parties have failed to agree on a solution within reasonable time, the Client shall have the right to terminate these Terms with a notice period determined by the Client, without prejudice to any other remedies available under law or contract. During the notice period, we shall not transfer any personal data processed on the Client’s behalf to the sub-processor.

Finsbury Media shall enter into appropriate written agreements with all of its sub-processors on terms substantially similar to these Terms. We shall remain primarily liable to the Client for the performance or non-performance of the sub-processors’ obligations. Upon your request, we are obliged to provide information regarding any sub-processor, including name, address and the processing carried out by the sub-processor.

We will not transfer personal data processed on your behalf to a country outside the United Kingdom which is not recognised by the European Commission to have an adequate level of protection in accordance with Data Protection Law unless the transfer is effected by such legally enforceable mechanism(s) for transfers of personal data as may be permitted under Data Protection Laws from time to time.

13. Standard Media Delivery

Unless otherwise specified in the project quotation, this Agreement assumes that any text will be provided by the Client in electronic format (Word or Google Docs, email or FTP) and that all photographs and other graphics will be provided electronically in .gif, .jpeg, .png, .eps, .svg or .tiff format. Although every reasonable attempt shall be made by Finsbury Media to return to the Client any images or printed material provided for use in creation of the Client’s website, such return cannot be guaranteed.

14. Design Credit and Marketing

A link to Finsbury Media will appear in either small type or by a small graphic at the bottom of the Client’s website. If a graphic is used, it will be designed to fit in with the overall site design. A request by client to remove the design credit must be received in writing.

The Client agrees that the website developed for the Client may be presented in Finsbury Media’s portfolio, and hereby grants Finsbury Media a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use its name, logo and branding for advertising, marketing and promotional activities.

15. Third Party Servers

Finsbury Media designs and tests websites to work on its own servers, and cannot guarantee correct functionality if the Client wishes to use a third-party server. In the event that the Client is using a third-party server, it is the responsibility of the Client and any third party host to ensure that the server is compatible with the website. Finsbury Media can assist the Client to configure the server if this is required. This is subject to additional charges on fees applicable.

If the Client’s website is to be installed on a third-party server, Finsbury Media must be granted temporary read/write access to the Client’s storage directories which must be accessible via FTP. Depending on the specific nature of the project, other resources might also need to be configured on the server. This may be subject to an additional fee of £100 per hour.

16. Post-Placement Alterations

In the event that the Client wishes to make alterations to the website once installed, the Client agrees to give Finsbury Media the opportunity to quote to provide such alterations. There is no obligation on the Client to accept the quote provided by Finsbury Media.

All alteration requests will be scheduled as per our workload. The agreed minimum estimate provided by Finsbury Media will need to be paid for upfront. Please allow for 20% on either side of this minimum estimate. Finsbury Media will keep the Client advised on any additional costs beyond the minimum estimate.

Finsbury Media cannot accept responsibility for any alterations caused by the Client or a third party occurring to the website once installed. Such alterations include, but are not limited to additions, modifications or deletions.

Without any website maintenance agreement with Finsbury Media any required fixes for errors caused by the Client, will be charged at our hourly rate of £100. Finsbury Media will follow a process to investigate the matter causing the error in order to recommend solutions and provide a minimum quote.

17. Domain Names

Finsbury Media may purchase domain names on behalf of the Client. Payment in relation to, and renewal of, those domain names is the responsibility of the Client. The loss, cancellation or otherwise of the domain brought about by non or late payment is not the responsibility of Finsbury Media. The Client should keep a record of the due dates for payment to ensure that payment is received in good time.

Any domains held by the Client should remain under their own account. If the Client needs to transfer domain account away from current domain provider this needs to be the Client’s responsibility to sort out transfer and billing account and not Finsbury Media. Wherever possible client should contact their own domain service provider.

18. Third Party Products….

Any third party software which Finsbury Media agrees to provide shall be supplied in accordance with the relevant licensor’s standard terms. The one-off licence and or any subscription fees for such third party software is included in the Charges payable pursuant to clause 1.

19. General

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all previous representations, promises, assurances, warranties, understandings and agreements between them, whether written or oral, relating to their subject matter

A failure or delay by a party to exercise any right or remedy provided under this agreement or by law shall not constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict any further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.

These Terms do not give rise to rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any part of these Terms.

No variation of these Terms shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the parties (or their authorised representatives).

A notice given to a party under or in connection with these Terms shall be in writing and in English, by email or next working day delivery service. Notices to the Client shall be sent to the email address or address last notified to Finsbury Media. Notices to Finsbury Media shall be sent to the email address or address set out at www.finsburymedia.com.

20. Digital Marketing

Finsbury Media will honour the components of your chosen digital marketing scope of work. In the event that payment is not received on time, we regret that further work will be halted until this is rectified.

21. Liability

Nothing in these Terms shall operate to exclude or limit either party’s liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by its negligence; (b) fraud; or (c) any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Finsbury Media shall not be liable under or in connection with these Terms or any collateral contract for any: (a) loss of revenue; (b) loss of actual or anticipated profits; (c) loss of contracts; (d) loss of business; (e) loss of opportunity; (f) loss of goodwill or reputation; (g) loss of, damage to or corruption of data; (h) any indirect or consequential loss; (i) loss or damage caused by any inaccuracy, omission, delay or error, whether as a result of negligence or other cause in the production of the website; or (j) loss or damage to the Client’s artwork/photos supplied for the website, whether as a result of negligence or otherwise.

The entire liability of Finsbury Media to the Client in respect of any claim whatsoever or breach of this Agreement, whether or not arising out of negligence, shall be limited to the charges paid for the Services under this Agreement in respect of which the breach has arisen.

22. Severability

In the event any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall be unimpaired and the Agreement shall not be void for this reason alone. Such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a mutually acceptable valid, legal and enforceable provision, which comes closest to the intention of the parties underlying the original provision.

23. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

Each party irrevocably agrees that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with these Terms or their subject matter or formation.