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Terms & Conditions

terms & conditions

The following terms and conditions outline Transcend Ideas’ relationship with our customers. By continuing to do business with Transcend Ideas all clients have indicated that they have read and understood these terms and agree to be bound by them.

1.0 Billing Practices

1.1 Timelines

Transcend Ideas will send invoices to customers at the beginning of each month for work done during the prior month. All invoices are due upon receipt unless specific arrangements have been made otherwise.

To make everyone’s bookkeeping easier, Transcend Ideas retains invoices that have a total billing value of less than $50. These smaller invoices will only be sent out at the beginning of January and July. If you wish to know if you have a small retained invoice, we will send the invoice upon request.

1.2 Disputes

Clients are encouraged to bring up any questions, disputes, or potentially billing errors within 30 days of invoices being received. Billing disputes after this time may or may not be adjusted at Transcend Ideas’ discretion. Any billing errors will be corrected regardless of when they are found.

1.3 Deposits

Transcend Ideas will require deposit payments ranging from 20% to 50% for all new client projects. We reserve the right to require a deposit on any project request. Deposit amounts will be applied to the first invoice.

1.4 Refunds

1.4.1 Graphic Design & Web Design

Payments for custom design projects are made to us in increments as a courtesy to the client. Once a payment or deposit is made, it is non-refundable. If a project is canceled or postponed the remaining deposit (if any) will be refunded to the client. However, any hours already spent regardless of whether they have been invoiced will be charged to the client.

1.4.2 Printed goods

All print orders are proof carefully internally. Proofs are then sent to the client for review. Refunds on printed goods will only be given in the event a printing error happens that was not proofed and pointed out by the client. IN the event of a material defect Transcend Ideas will work with the manufacturer to receive a refund and will pass that refund along to the client accordingly.

1.4.3 Non-refundable Fees

The following fees are non-refundable.

  • All hosting and domain registration fees.
  • Stock photography fees.
  • Third-party service fees.
  • Hourly service fees.

2.0 Ongoing services and Cancellation

Transcend Ideas provides many ongoing services for our clients including marketing, hosting, and domain registration. Clients must notify Transcend Ideas in order to cancel any of these services that are being supplied. Once agreed to, Transcend Ideas will assume the client wants to continue with any of these services unless notified otherwise and the client will be liable for any costs associated with these services.

All clients may cancel their project or ongoing services with Transcend Ideas at any time and without any prior notice. The client will still be liable for all service fees and expenses incurred through the date of cancellation.

3.0 Liability and Warranty

Transcend Ideas has an extensive portfolio of successful projects to which our clients have had access so they can review the quality of our design and marketing. Transcend Ideas offers no warranty or guarantee for fitness of use for any of our services or goods. We cannot offer any guarantee for success on any client project or marketing effort.

In the event of any lawsuit between Transcend Ideas and the client, Transcend Ideas’ limitation of liability to the client shall not exceed the fees and expenses paid to Transcend Ideas by the client during the past 12 months look back period prior to the suit being filed.

  • By working on any of the Client’s projects Transcend Ideas does not accept any liability for any third party or consequential damages that arise as a result of the project.

4.0 Copyright and Ownership

Unless specific licensing terms have been negotiated for a project the following terms will be in effect. All work is NOT done as “work for hire” but as a project-based service.

4.1 Graphic Design

Copyright ownership over any final graphic design works created for a client will pass along to the client once all fees have been paid to Transcend Ideas.

4.2 Photography and Videography

Copyright ownership over any photographs or video created for a client will pass along to the client once all fees have been paid for such shooting.

4.3 Web Application Development

The copyright ownership of all applications will remain with Transcend Ideas; however, clients will be granted a lifetime license to the use and installation of any such programs. The client will have full transfer rights of their license but will be restricted from reselling the application or allowing it to be reverse engineered for the purpose of resale. All applications developed by Transcend Ideas contain proprietary code that includes functionality for user management, security, and database connectivity which constitute Transcend Ideas’ intellectual property and which has significant value to Transcend Ideas.

4.4 Data ownership and security

Any data created by the client or on the client’s website or any web application is and will remain the exclusive intellectual property of the client. Transcend Ideas will in no way sell, distribute, analyze or review such data without prior consent by the client and on the client’s behalf. Furthermore, Transcend Ideas will execute the same level of security in the protection of such data as it does to protect its own sensitive data.