Terms of service

1. Who you are contracting with

Fringe Design is a sole proprietorship of Jeremiah Lewis. Your contract is with Jeremiah Lewis, trading as Fringe Design.

Contact: jeremiah.lewis@gmail.com, 540-239-8721. I work from home and do not publish a business address.

2. Governing jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States of America. Any dispute that cannot be settled between us is heard in the courts of New York.

3. What you are buying

You are buying services: website consulting, custom website builds, custom app and platform development including Wordpress and Shopify, and upkeep, maintenance, troubleshooting, and debugging.

The scope of each engagement is whatever is written in the price I send you and you accept. Anything outside that quote is new work and needs a new quote.

4. Payment

There are no set prices. Every engagement begins with a consultation; once I can gauge the work I send a written price, and work starts when you accept it.

Maintenance and troubleshooting are billed at $150 an hour for time worked. A monthly retainer is also available: you pay for an agreed number of hours each month and that time is held for you, whether or not you use it. Future milestones are billed as they begin, not in advance.

Prices are in United States dollars. [TODO: accepted payment methods, invoice schedule, and late-payment handling.]

5. Delivery

Everything is delivered electronically: deployed to your hosting or platform, or sent to you by email or download link. Nothing is shipped physically.

Delivery depends on you giving me the access and material the work needs — hosting credentials, platform access, content, and timely answers. Delays on your side move the delivery date.

6. Refunds and cancellation

Refunds, cancellation notice, and disputes are covered in the refund policy, which forms part of these terms.

7. Your responsibilities

You own or have the right to use the content, images, and data you give me, and you keep your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose.

Third-party services — hosting, domains, Wordpress, Shopify, payment processors, plugins — have their own terms and fees. Those are yours to accept and pay.

8. Limitation of liability

I do the work with reasonable skill and care, but I do not warrant that software will be free of every fault or that a site will never go down.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Fringe Design is not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost profit, lost revenue, lost data, or loss of business — arising from the services or from any product delivered.

Total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for the engagement the claim relates to. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

9. Restrictions

Products and services are not sold to persons or entities located in, or ordinarily resident in, sanctioned jurisdictions, or to persons or entities named on any restricted-party or denied-party list maintained by the United States government or applicable authorities.

By ordering you confirm you are not such a person or entity and that you will not re-export or transfer what I deliver in breach of those controls. I may refuse or cancel an order that would breach this clause.

10. Changes to these terms

I may update these terms. The version published here when you accept a quote is the version that applies to that engagement.