Clear terms for a managed website partnership.

1. Parties, authority, and electronic acceptance

This Website Services User Agreement is between Close Out Deals LLC d/b/a Closeout Development, doing business as Closeout Development (“Provider”), and the person or business accepting it (“Client”). The individual accepting confirms that they are at least 18 years old and authorized to act for Client. Checking the agreement box, completing payment, or signing electronically is intended as Client’s electronic acceptance.

2. Consultation requests and formation of paid service

Submitting a consultation request is free, does not guarantee acceptance of a project, and does not itself charge Client. Provider may contact Client about the request. Paid service begins only when Provider accepts the project and Client accepts the applicable invoice or payment checkout. Any invoice-specific scope or price accepted at payment controls over conflicting advertised examples.

3. Website scope and excluded work

The standard scope is a basic, non-transactional informational brochure website describing the client’s business, services, and contact information. Ecommerce, customer accounts, databases, booking systems, custom integrations, regulated-industry compliance work, major redesigns, and other application functionality are excluded unless listed in a written scope or invoice. Provider may decline work that is unlawful, unsafe, deceptive, infringing, or outside its capabilities.

4. Fees, recurring payment authorization, and taxes

The advertised starting price is $99.99 at signup plus a required managed-service charge of $49.99 each month. Client authorizes Stripe to charge the accepted first payment and the recurring monthly amount until cancellation becomes effective. Different amounts may apply only when clearly shown in the invoice or checkout Client accepts. Client is responsible for applicable taxes, chargebacks, bank fees, and overdue balances except where prohibited by law.

5. Cancel at any time

Client may cancel at any time by emailing Daniel@closeoutdealsllc.com. Cancellation becomes effective at the end of the monthly period already paid for, future recurring charges stop, and the current paid period is not partially refunded except where required by law. Provider may continue service through that date and may take the managed website offline when cancellation becomes effective. Cancellation does not erase amounts already due or obligations that by their nature survive termination.

6. Website, domain, hosting, and ownership buyout

Provider controls the managed website, domain registration, hosting account, source files, administrative credentials, deployment systems, templates, reusable code, and design system while service is active. Client receives a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the published managed website during active service. If Client cancels but wants to own and retain the website and domain, the buyout price is ten times the accepted first payment with an absolute minimum of $5,000.00; based on the stated first payment, the current minimum calculation is $5,000.00. Transfer requires cleared payment, payment of all balances, and a separate written transfer document. Third-party licenses, subscriptions, fonts, stock media, accounts, and nontransferable tools are excluded unless expressly listed.

7. Client materials and permission to use them

Client keeps ownership of its preexisting names, logos, trademarks, photos, videos, text, reviews, data, and other supplied materials (“Client Materials”). Client grants Provider and its contractors a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license to copy, edit, adapt, display, publish, host, transmit, back up, and otherwise use Client Materials as reasonably needed to design, build, operate, secure, maintain, support, and demonstrate the website. The operational license lasts while services are provided and for reasonable backup, recordkeeping, dispute, and legal-compliance periods afterward.

Client represents that it owns or has all permissions needed for Client Materials and requested uses. Client is responsible for claims, permissions, releases, trademark rights, copyright rights, privacy rights, advertising claims, and industry-required disclosures related to its materials and business.

8. Portfolio and marketing permission

Unless Client opts out by written notice, Client permits Provider to identify Client by business name and display its logo, public website link, and screenshots or short descriptions of the completed work in Provider’s portfolio, proposals, case studies, social channels, and marketing. An opt-out is prospective and does not require recalling materials already printed or distributed, but Provider will reasonably stop new uses after receiving notice. Provider will not publish Client’s private business records or confidential information for portfolio purposes.

9. Client responsibilities, content, and approvals

Client will provide complete and accurate content, access, instructions, approvals, and feedback on time. Client is responsible for the legality and accuracy of its products, services, prices, claims, testimonials, privacy disclosures, accessibility requirements, professional licensing, and industry-specific obligations. Client will review drafts and report errors promptly. Written approval, payment, publication authorization, or use of the published website may be treated as acceptance of the delivered work within the agreed scope.

10. Timing, delays, revisions, and abandoned projects

Delivery dates are estimates unless expressly guaranteed in writing. Provider is not responsible for delays caused by Client, third parties, internet services, registrars, payment processors, force majeure events, or circumstances outside Provider’s reasonable control. Reasonable corrections within scope are included before approval. New directions, additional pages, major revisions, or added functionality may require a new quote. Provider may pause an inactive project after reasonable notice while awaiting Client materials or decisions.

11. Managed service, support, and minor changes

The required monthly service covers managed hosting, domain management, routine platform maintenance, reasonable support, and reasonable minor changes to existing text or images. It does not include unlimited labor, new pages, redesigns, custom software, ecommerce, emergency after-hours work, advertising management, or services not stated in the accepted scope. Provider may quote additional work separately.

12. Acceptable use, security, and suspension

Client will not request or use the service for unlawful, fraudulent, infringing, defamatory, abusive, malicious, deceptive, or privacy-violating activity. Client will not attempt to access Provider systems or credentials without authorization. Provider may refuse content, temporarily suspend service to protect security or third parties, or terminate for material breach, nonpayment, unlawful instructions, abuse, or risk to Provider’s systems or reputation, subject to reasonable notice when practical.

13. Third-party services and licenses

Stripe, DocuSign, hosting providers, domain registries, search engines, analytics services, email providers, stock-media libraries, plugins, and other third parties operate under their own terms, policies, pricing, availability, and technical limits. Provider does not control them and is not responsible for their outages, policy changes, account decisions, data handling, or discontinued services. Comparable replacements may be used when reasonably necessary.

14. Search, performance, and business-results disclaimer

Provider may supply technical and on-page search-engine optimization described in the scope, but does not guarantee indexing, rankings, traffic, leads, sales, revenue, accessibility compliance, legal compliance, uninterrupted service, error-free operation, or acceptance by any platform. Search engines and customers control their own decisions and results.

15. Confidentiality, privacy, and electronic communications

Each party will use reasonable care with nonpublic information received from the other and may disclose it to contractors and service providers who need it to perform the service. Provider may retain consultation records, acceptance records, project files, billing references, communications, backups, and signed documents for operations, security, enforcement, and legal compliance. Client agrees to receive transactional emails, calls, and texts related to consultations and service; marketing communications require any consent required by law.

16. Warranties, liability limits, and indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, services are provided “as is” and “as available,” and implied warranties are disclaimed. Provider’s total aggregate liability arising from the service will not exceed the amounts Client paid Provider during the three months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim. Provider is not liable for lost profits, lost data, lost business, reputational harm, or indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages. These limits do not apply where prohibited by law.

Client will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Provider and its owners, workers, and contractors from third-party claims, damages, penalties, and reasonable costs arising from Client Materials, Client’s products or services, unlawful or misleading instructions, infringement, privacy violations, or Client’s business operations, except to the extent caused by Provider’s willful misconduct where such exclusion is not permitted.

17. Provider termination and effect of termination

Provider may terminate for material breach after reasonable notice and an opportunity to cure when appropriate, or immediately for nonpayment, illegal activity, security threats, fraud, abuse, or conduct creating material risk. On termination or cancellation, Client’s right to use Provider-owned site assets ends, Provider may disable the site and related services, and Provider may retain records required for billing, backups, dispute resolution, and legal compliance. Sections concerning ownership, licenses, payment, liability, indemnity, disputes, and records survive.

18. Governing law and disputes

This User Agreement is governed by Alabama law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where mandatory law requires otherwise. Before filing a claim, the parties will provide written notice and make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. Any court proceeding must be brought in a state or federal court with jurisdiction serving Provider’s principal place of business, unless applicable law requires another venue.

19. General terms

This User Agreement, the accepted invoice or checkout, the applicable scope, and any signed amendments are the entire agreement for the covered service and replace prior discussions about that service. If documents conflict, the later customer-accepted invoice or written amendment controls only for the specific scope or price it changes. Client may not transfer this agreement without Provider’s written consent. Provider may use contractors and may assign the agreement in connection with a business transfer. Waiver of one breach is not a waiver of another. If one term is unenforceable, it will be narrowed or removed to the minimum necessary and the remaining terms continue. Headings are for convenience only.