Terms of Use
These terms apply to your use of ardenux.com. Using the website means they apply to that use.
They cover the public website and nothing more. Reading a page, comparing packages or sending an enquiry commits neither side to a project — work ARDENUX actually carries out is governed by what the two sides agree in writing for it.
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What these terms cover
These terms govern the public ARDENUX website: its pages, its service and package information, its project examples and its demos.
They are not a services contract, and browsing is not acceptance of one. If a project goes ahead, that project is governed by what is agreed in writing for it — the section on website information and client agreements, below, says how the two relate.
Website information
The website describes what ARDENUX does and the kind of work it takes on. It is general information.
ARDENUX aims to keep it accurate and useful and updates it from time to time. Pages are not re-checked against every project as work evolves, so a detail may be out of date — anything you are relying on is worth confirming directly before you act on it.
Explanatory content — what a service involves, when a particular kind of website makes sense, what to prepare — is general information about web development. It is not an assessment of your business or of your existing website, which takes looking at the actual situation.
Services, estimates and scope
Service and package descriptions explain the general type of work ARDENUX offers. What a particular project includes depends on that project.
A page is not a proposal
Nothing on the website is a binding offer unless it says so. A page cannot know your content, your requirements or the state of your existing site.
Scope decides the rest
Deliverables, functionality, timeline and final price follow from the scope agreed for your project, not from the package name nearest to it.
Put it in writing
Anything either side is relying on — what is included, what it costs, when it is due — belongs in writing for that project before work starts.
Pricing
Prices shown on the website are in US dollars unless stated otherwise. They are website information, not a quotation for your project, and the website takes no payments.
What a published price means
It is the current published price for that package. Where a price is shown as a starting figure, it is a starting point for that kind of work rather than a total.
What your project costs
The price for your project follows the scope agreed for it. Where the website publishes no price for something, none has been published — it is quoted against the actual scope instead.
Changes apply going forward
Published prices may be updated. An update applies to the website from the moment it is published, and does not change a price already agreed in writing for a project.
Promotions
The website sometimes shows a temporary promotion. When it does, the promotional price and any conditions shown with it apply to that promotion and to the period it states, and to nothing else.
Once that period ends, current standard pricing applies to new work. A promotion shown on the website does not change a price already agreed in writing for a project, and a promotion that has ended is not reinstated by an older page still being open in a browser.
Timelines
Timeframes on the website, including any figure given as a starting point for a simple website, are estimates drawn from past work. They are not a delivery guarantee.
What a project actually takes depends on its scope, how ready your content and materials are, how quickly feedback comes back, the functionality requested, and anything it depends on from outside — hosting, domains, third-party accounts. A timeline either side is relying on belongs in the written agreement for that project.
Project examples and demos
The website shows project examples and short demo videos.
What they are for
They illustrate the approaches ARDENUX uses — structure, layout, mobile behaviour, contact flows and performance work — so you can see the standard of the work.
They are not a scope list
A feature visible in an example is not automatically part of another project. What your project includes is what is agreed for it.
Material belonging to others
Previews and screenshots may show names, logos or content belonging to their respective owners. They appear as examples of work, and imply no endorsement, partnership or affiliation.
Intellectual property
Unless a page says otherwise, the original text, layout, design, branding and site-specific material on ardenux.com belongs to ARDENUX or is used with permission. Copying or republishing it for commercial use needs permission first.
Ordinary use is unaffected: reading the site, printing a page, sharing a link, quoting a short passage with attribution, and normal search-engine indexing are all fine.
This claims nothing over material that is not ARDENUX's. Third-party names, logos and trademarks, client-supplied materials and any other content shown on the website remain with their respective owners.
Acceptable use
Use the website normally. What is asked is narrow:
Do not interfere with the website
That includes attempting to reach parts of it you have not been given access to.
Do not run activity that disrupts it
Automated traffic is fine until it materially degrades the website or the experience of the people using it.
Do not use the content unlawfully
Website material may not be used in a way that breaks the law or infringes someone else's rights.
None of this is aimed at ordinary browsing, at assistive technology, or at search engines indexing the site — all of which are welcome.
Links and third-party services
The website's outbound contact is an email link. Sending an email means the message travels through and is stored by email services, which operate under their own terms and policies.
Where the website links to anything outside ardenux.com, that destination belongs to somebody else. ARDENUX does not control it and is not responsible for its content or its terms.
Privacy
How ARDENUX handles enquiries, the technical information a request carries, and the preference stored in your own browser is set out separately:
Availability and changes to the website
ARDENUX maintains, updates and changes parts of the website from time to time, and pages may be added, revised or removed.
The website is offered as available. It is not promised to be uninterrupted or free of errors, and access can be affected by maintenance or by things outside ARDENUX's control, such as hosting or network problems.
Website information and client agreements
This is the part worth being clear about.
The website is general information. A project is governed by what is actually agreed for it — a proposal, a scope document, an invoice, or whatever else the two sides put in writing and accept.
Where a written agreement for a project and general website information do not say the same thing, the written agreement is the one that applies to that project. Nothing on this page reduces or replaces something ARDENUX has separately agreed in writing with a client.
Responsibility
To the extent applicable law allows, ARDENUX is not responsible for loss arising from reliance on general website information where the specific details should have been confirmed for the project first.
This does not affect responsibilities that cannot be excluded by law, and it does not affect anything ARDENUX has agreed in writing for a particular project.
Changes to these terms
These terms will change as the website and the way ARDENUX works change.
The current version is always the one published at this address, and the date at the top of the page shows when the wording last changed. Continuing to use the website after a change means the current version applies to that use — it does not alter an agreement already made for a project.
Contact
Questions about these terms can go to the same address as anything else: