The following Terms and Conditions of Service apply to all products and services provided by Be Noticed Design (hereinafter referred to as Be Noticed) and in the event of any dispute are governed by the laws of England.

All work is carried out by Be Noticed Design on the understanding that the client has agreed to our terms and conditions.

Copyright is retained by Be Noticed Design on all design work including words, pictures, ideas, visuals and illustrations unless specifically released in writing and after all costs have been settled.

When a choice of designs is presented to the client for a project carried out by Be Noticed Design, only the selection final choice of design is deemed to be released to the client as fulfilling of the contract. All other designs remain the property of Be Noticed Design, unless specifically agreed in writing.

At the time of a given project proposal submitted to the given client, Be Noticed will provide the customer with a written estimate or quotation by email. These Terms and Conditions can be read at any time on the Be Noticed website.
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A copy of the written estimate or quotation is to be signed and dated by the customer to indicate acceptance and should be returned to Be Noticed.
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For the avoidance of doubt, the Be Noticed Terms & Conditions are what govern the job, not any conditions a customer stipulates within their Terms and Conditions.

Charges for design services to be provided by Be Noticed Design and are set out in the written quotation that is provided to the client. Once the client has signed the formal project quote, it is deemed that the client has given formal acceptance of a given quotation, indicating acceptance of the Terms & Conditions and payment terms. Once an outlined project stage has been completed, an invoice is raised and due. This invoice has to be settled upon receipt, before the next stage can be started.

We will supply appropriate format proofs, typically PDF files at various outlined stages of a project, as detailed in the job scope. Charges for design work do not cover the release of our copyright design source files, including but not restricted to ID, PSD, Ai, PNG or other source files or raw code; if the Client requires these files for transfer to an in-house or other design entity, they will be subject to a separate quotation or ‘buy-out’ charge. Design release fees can however be inclusive to a project quote, but subject to being explicitly agreed and formally outlined in a project quote, before a project begins.

Charges for any additional services requested during the project that are over and above the estimated time or out of scope, will become fully payable (100% of the quoted amount) at the time of submission of the given additional work. Clients will be issued a formal quote for the additional work and asked to sign, agreeing to pay for the additional time outlined.

Invoices are due and payable upon receipt of Invoice. Any invoice queries must be submitted by email within 14 days of the invoice date. Accounts which remain outstanding for 30 days after the date of invoice, will incur late payment interest charge of 8% of the invoice total per week.

Payments may be made by online transfer or Paypal. Payments made by cheque must be previously agreed and may be subject to an administration charge. Cheques should not be sent in regular mail unless sent recorded delivery. Publication and/or release of work done by Be Noticed Design on behalf of the client, may not take place before cleared funds have been received.

Returned cheques will incur an additional fee of £50 per returned cheque. Be Noticed Design reserves the right to consider an account to be in default in the event of a returned cheque.

An account shall be considered default if it remains unpaid for 30 days from the date of invoice, or following a returned cheque. Be Noticed shall be entitled to remove Be Noticed and/or the customer’s material from any and all computer systems, until the amount due has been fully paid. This includes any and all unpaid monies due for services, including, but not limited to, hosting, domain registration, search engine submission, design and maintenance, sub-contractors, printers, photographers and libraries.

Removal of such materials does not relieve the customer of its obligation to pay the due amount. Customers whose accounts become default agree to pay all Be Noticed reasonable legal and accounting expenses and third party collection agency fees, in the enforcement of the debt and these Terms and Conditions.

By supplying text, images and other data to Be Noticed for inclusion in the customer’s website or other medium, the customer declares that it holds the appropriate copyright and/or trademark permissions. The ownership of such materials will remain with the customer, or rightful copyright or trademark owner.

Any artwork, images, or text supplied and/or designed by Be Noticed on behalf of the customer, will remain the property of Be Noticed and/or its suppliers unless otherwise agreed in writing. A licence for use of the copyright material is granted to the customer solely for the project defined in the scope or request and not for any other purpose.

The customer may request in writing from Be Noticed, the necessary permission to use materials (for which Be Noticed holds the copyright) in forms other than for which it was originally supplied, and Be Noticed may, at its discretion, grant this and may charge for the additional usage. Such permission must be obtained in writing before any of the aforesaid artwork, images, text, or other data is used.

Any software, code, plugin or other third party material used in a web or digital project remains the property of the creator and any ongoing licence fees or fees for upgrades are the responsibility of the client, not Be Noticed.

By supplying images, text, or any other data to Be Noticed, the customer grants Be Noticed permission to use this material freely in the pursuit of the design. Should Be Noticed, or the customer supply an image, text, audio clip or any other file for use in a website, multimedia presentation, print item, exhibition, advertisement or any other medium believing it to be copyright and royalty free, which subsequently emerges to have such copyright or royalty usage limitations, the customer will agree to allow Be Noticed to remove and/or replace the file on the site.

The customer agrees to fully indemnify and hold Be Noticed free from harm in any and all claims resulting from the customer in not having obtained all the required copyright, and/or any other necessary permissions.

The customer agrees that changes required over and above the estimated work, or in addition to the agreed scope, or where the client makes changes to the supplied copy or changes required to be carried out after acceptance of the draft design, will be liable to a separate charge.

The customer also agrees that Be Noticed holds no responsibility for any amendments made by any third party, before or after a design is published.

Any design, copywriting, drawing, idea or code created for the customer by Be Noticed, or any of its contractors, is licensed for use by the client on a one-time only basis and may not be modified, re-used, or re-distributed in any way or form without the express written consent of Be Noticed and any of its relevant sub-contractors.

All design work – where there is a risk that another party make a claim, should be registered by the client with the appropriate authorities prior to publishing or first use or searches and legal advice sought as to its use.

Be Noticed will not be held responsible for any and all damages resulting from such claims. Be Noticed is not responsible for any loss, or consequential loss, non-delivery of products or services, of whatever cause. The customer agrees not to hold Be Noticed responsible for any such loss or damage.

Any claim against Be Noticed shall be limited to the relevant fee(s) paid by the customer.

The client agrees to Be Noticed definition of acceptable means of supplying data to the company. Text is to be supplied to Be Noticed in electronic format as standard text (.txt), MS Word (.docx)  or via e-mail / FTP or shared folder.

Images which are supplied in an electronic format are to be provided in a format as prescribed by Be Noticed via e-mail / FTP. Images must be of a quality suitable for use without any subsequent image processing, and Be Noticed will not be held responsible for any image quality which the client later deems to be unacceptable. Be Noticed cannot be held responsible for the quality of any images which the client wishes to be scanned from printed materials.

Additional expenses may be incurred for any necessary action, including, but not limited to, photography and art direction, photography searches, media conversion, digital image processing, or data entry services, colour correction and alteration of images

Any indication given by Be Noticed of a design project’s duration is to be considered by the customer to be an estimation. Be Noticed cannot be held responsible for any project over-runs, whatever the cause. Estimated project duration should be deemed to be from the date that the signed quotation is received from the client.

The client agrees to allow Be Noticed all necessary access to computer systems and other locations, as required, in order to complete a website project and until all due funds are cleared, including the necessary read/write permissions, usernames and passwords.
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The customer also agrees to allow Be Noticed access to any computer systems, usernames and passwords required to remove data and/or sites for failure to comply with these Terms and Conditions.

The customer agrees to supply Be Noticed with all necessary materials, electronic, or otherwise, required to create and complete the project, and to supply them in a timely manner.

Be Noticed considers the design project complete upon acceptance of the final stage of the project. Other services such as printing, display panel production, filmwork, website uploading, publishing etc either contracted on the client’s behalf constitute a separate project and can be treated as a separate charge.

Be Noticed require that a template is approved by the customer before coding of a site commences. Once the template(s) for the website are approved by the customer, coding will commence; any changes to navigation items, colours, structure or content that require changes to the template will incur an additional charge.

Once web design is complete, Be Noticed will provide the customer with the opportunity to review the resulting work. Be Noticed will make one set of minor changes at no extra cost within 14 days of the start of the review period. Minor changes include small textual changes and small adjustments to placement of items on the page. It does not include changes to images, colour schemes or any navigation features. Any minor changes can be notified to Be Noticed by e-mail.

Be Noticed will consider that the client has accepted the original draft, if no notification of changes is received in writing from the customer, within 14 days of the start of the review period.

Be Noticed offers a hosting services through an out-sourced virtual server. Be Noticed does not guarantee continuous service and will accept no liability for loss of service, whatever the cause.

Be Noticed may request that clients change the type of hosting account used if that account is deemed by Be Noticed to be unacceptable because of poor service, lack of bandwidth or in any other way insufficient to support the website. Fees for hosting on Be Noticed virtual server are due at the commencement of any period of service and are non-refundable.

Fees due to third party hosting organisations are the responsibility of the client and Be Noticed are not liable for their payment, nor for the renewal of domain names, which are the sole responsibility of the customer / domain owner.

Be Noticed cannot guarantee the availability of any domain name. Where Be Noticed  is to register a domain name on behalf of a client it will endeavour to do so, but the client should not assume a successful registration.

Due to the infinite number of considerations that search engines use when determining a site’s ranking, Be Noticed cannot guarantee any particular placement. Acceptance by any search engine cannot be guaranteed and when a site is accepted, the time it takes to appear in search results varies from one search engine to another. Rankings will also vary as new sites are added.

The customer agrees to allow Be Noticed to place a small credit on printed material exhibition displays, advertisements and/or a link to Be Noticed own website on the customer’s website.

This will usually be in the form of a small logo or line of text placed towards the bottom of the page.The customer also agrees to allow Be Noticed to place websites and other designs, along with a link to the client’s site on Be Noticed own website for demonstration purposes and to use any designs in its own publicity and portfolios.

Be Noticed will not include in its designs, any text, images or other data which it deems to be immoral, offensive, obscene or illegal. All advertising material must conform to all standards laid down by all relevant advertising standards authorities.

Be Noticed also reserves the right to refuse to include submitted material without giving reason. In the situation where any images and/or data that Be Noticed does include in all good faith, and subsequently discovers is in contravention to such Terms and Conditions, the customer is obliged to allow Be Noticed to remove the contravention without hindrance, or penalty. Be Noticed is to be held in no way responsible for any such data being included.

Cancellation of project(s) may be made by formal email instruction. The client will then be invoiced for all work completed to that date, which is payable upon receipt of invoice. In addition, the client will be subject to pay 25% of the remaining balance of the remaining project fee. The balance of monies due must be paid within 30 days.

Be Noticed makes no warranties of any kind, express or implied, for any and all products and/or services that it supplies. Be Noticed will not be held responsible for any and all damages resulting from products and/or services it supplies.

Be Noticed is not responsible for any loss, or consequential loss of data, or non-delivery of products or services, of whatever cause. While we take reasonable steps to investigate the materials we recommend, we accept no responsibility for the performance or quality of materials or any consequential loss arising from their failure.

The customer agrees not to hold Be Noticed responsible for any such loss or damage. Any claim against Be Noticed shall be limited to the relevant fee(s) paid by the customer. Be Noticed reserves the right to use the services of sub-contractors, agents and suppliers and any work, content, services and usage is bound by their Terms and Conditions.

Be Noticed will not knowingly perform any actions to contravene these and the client also agrees to be so bound. Be Noticed and its clients agree to comply with Printers Terms and Conditions which include disclaimers for non-completion on time and the flexibility to supply quantities within 10% of the total ordered. Be Noticed recommend that if an exact quantity is required, then 10% extra is added to the quantity and extra time made available should the job be delayed.

These Terms and Conditions supersede any previous Terms and Conditions distributed in any form. Be Noticed reserves the right to change any rates and any of the Terms and Conditions at any time and without prior notice.

The placement of a project for design and/or any other services offered by Be Noticed, by email, verbally or in writing, is deemed to be acceptance of these terms and conditions, which are freely available at www.benoticeddesign.co.uk An estimate validated by the customer’s signature on the estimate or quotation form, or by email, constitutes acceptance of the estimate or quotation and agreement to comply fully with all the Terms and Conditions and forms a Contract for Business between the signatory and Be Noticed.