Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing the website at https://designedbyanthony.com (the "Site") or engaging Designed by Anthony for custom web design, application development, SEO, hosting, or consulting services ("Services"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site or our services.

2. Scope of Services

Designed by Anthony provides premium digital infrastructure services. The specific scope, deliverables, timelines, and costs for any web development or local SEO project will be explicitly outlined in a separate Statement of Work (SOW), Proposal, or written agreement provided to the Client prior to the commencement of engineering.

3. Client Responsibilities

To ensure the timely and successful delivery of our Services, you agree to:

• Provide all necessary access to existing hosting environments, domain registrars, and third-party software credentials safely and securely as required.
• Deliver all requested content (text, imagery, and branding assets) in a timely manner. Prolonged delays in content delivery by the client may result in adjusted project timelines.
• Validate that any and all materials provided to us do not infringe upon the intellectual property rights or copyrights of third parties.

4. Financials and Payments

Unless otherwise explicitly specified in a formal proposal, custom web design projects require a standard 50% upfront deposit to secure scheduling and commence development. The remaining 50% balance is due upon project completion, prior to the website being formally launched on your live production domain.

Monthly services (such as Managed Hosting, Maintenance, and ongoing SEO) are billed recursively. Failure to remit payment within 15 days of the invoice date may result in a suspension of services or hosting until the account balance is satisfied. All fees and deposits are strictly non-refundable once engineering or scoping work has commenced.

5. Intellectual Property and Final Ownership

Upon receipt of full and final payment, the Client assumes full ownership of the final website deliverables, encompassing the visual design format, written content, and the compiled frontend application.

Designed by Anthony retains the overarching intellectual property rights to any pre-existing custom frameworks, infrastructure scripts, algorithms, or proprietary codebases developed independently by our agency and utilized to power the project. We inherently reserve the right to display the completed project in our professional portfolio and marketing materials unless a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) is executed prior to the project's start.

6. Limitation of Liability

In no event shall Designed by Anthony, nor its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Service; (ii) any conduct or content of any third party on the Service; (iii) any unauthorized access, use or alteration of your transmissions or secure content.

7. Warranties and Guarantees

We engineer fundamentally sound, high-performance websites according to bleeding-edge industry standards. However, software and search algorithms operate in an inherently fluid ecosystem. We do not guarantee that your website will remain permanently impervious to third-party API deprecations, major browser engine shifts, or evolving Google SEO algorithm updates over years of operation. If you are subscribed to our Managed Hosting plan, our team will proactively apply architecture adjustments and security patches on your behalf to mitigate these shifts.

8. Termination of Services

Either party may terminate a project agreement by providing standard written notice. If the Client terminates a custom project early, Designed by Anthony strictly retains the initial deposit and reserves the right to invoice for any additional hourly labor completed beyond the deposit cover. Designed by Anthony reserves the right to terminate services immediately for violations of these Terms, non-payment, or abusive behavior toward our development team.

9. Governing Law

These Terms shall be aggressively governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights.

10. Official Communication

If you have any questions, concerns, or require clarifications regarding these Terms of Service or our contractual operating procedures, please direct all inquiries to:

Designed by Anthony
7749 Kilbourn Road
Rome, NY 13440
Email: anthony@designedbyanthony.com
Phone: +1 (315) 922-5592