All work is carried out by Public Designers on the understanding that the client has agreed to Public Designers's terms and conditions.

Copyright is retained by Public Designers on all design work including words, pictures, ideas, visuals and illustrations (unless specifically released in writing) and after all costs have been settled.

If a choice of design is presented, only one solution is deemed to be given by Public Designers as fulfilling the contract. All other designs remain the property of Public Designers, unless agreed in writing that this arrangement has been changed.

 

Project Acceptance
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At the time of proposal, Public Designers will provide the customer with a written estimate or quotation. The Terms and Conditions can be read on Public Designers's website.

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 Public Designers. Alternatively, the client may send an official order in reply to the estimate or quotation which binds the client to accept Public Designers's terms and conditions. No work on a project will commence until either document has been received by Public Designers.

Design Charges
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Charges for design services to be provided by Public Designers, will be set out in the written estimate or quotation that is provided to the customer. At the time of the customer's signed acceptance of this estimate or quotation, indicating acceptance of the Terms & Conditions, a non-refundable deposit of 50% of the quoted fee will become immediately due. Work on the project will not commence until Public Designers has received this amount.

Charges for Other Services
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Charges for any additional services over and above the estimated design, will become fully payable (100% of the quoted amount) at the time of estimate or quotation acceptance.

Payment
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The customer will be provided with an Approval Form and Invoice prior to final publication. At this time the remainder of the amount due will become payable and the customer will also be required to sign and return the Approval Form to Public Designers. Accounts which remain outstanding for 30 days after the date of invoice, will incur an extra charge of 2% per month of the outstanding amount.

Payments may be made by cash, cheque, or (for overseas customers), Pound Sterling International Money Order or previously agreed electronic funds transfer.

Publication and/or release of work done by Public Designers 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. Public Designers reserves the right to consider an account to be in default in the event of a returned cheque.

Default
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An account shall be considered default if it remains unpaid for 30 days from the date of invoice, or following a returned cheque. Public Designers shall be considered entitled to remove Public Designers's 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 it's obligation to pay the due amount. Customers whose accounts become default agree to pay Public Designers reasonable legal expenses and third party collection agency fees in the enforcement of these Terms and Conditions.

Copyrights and Trademarks
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By supplying text, images and other data to Public Designers 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 Public Designers on behalf of the customer, will remain the property of Public Designers and/or it's suppliers.

The customer may request in writing from Public Designers, the necessary permission to use materials (for which Public Designers holds the copyright) in forms other than for which it was originally supplied, and Public Designers may, at it's discretion, grant this. Such permission must be obtained in writing before it will allow any of the aforesaid artwork, images, text, or other data to be used.

By supplying images, text, or any other data to Public Designers, the customer grants Public Designers permission to use this material freely in the pursuit of the design.

Should Public Designers, 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 Public Designers to remove and/or replace the file on the site.

The customer agrees to fully indemnify and hold Public Designers 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.

Alterations
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The customer agrees that changes required over and above the estimated work or required to be carried out after acceptance of the draft design will be liable to a separate charge.

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

 

Data Formats
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The client agrees to Public Designers's definition of acceptable means of supplying data to the company.

Text is to be supplied to Public Designers in electronic format as standard text (.txt), MS Word (.doc) on CD-ROM, or via e-mail.

Images which are supplied in an electronic format, are to be provided in a format as prescribed by Public Designers via CD-ROM, or e-mail. Images must be of a quality suitable for use without any subsequent image processing, and Public Designers will not be held responsible for any image quality which the client later deems to be unacceptable.

Public Designers 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.

Design Project Duration
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Any indication given by Public Designers of a design project's duration is to be considered by the customer to be an estimation. Public Designers cannot be held responsible for any project over-runs, whatever the cause. Estimated project duration should be deemed to be from the date that cleared funds are received by Public Designers for the initial payment or by date confirmed in writing by Public Designers.

Rights of Access for Website Construction
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The client agrees to allow Public Designers 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. The customer also agrees to allow Public Designers 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 Public Designers with all necessary materials, electronic, or otherwise, required to create and complete the project, and to supply them in a timely manner.

Design Project Completion
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Public Designers considers the design project complete upon receipt of the customer's signed Approval form. Other services such as printing, display panel production, filmwork, website uploading, publishing etc either contracted on the clients behalf constitute a separate project and can be treated as a separate charge.

Website Design Only
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Once web design is complete, Public Designers will provide the customer with the opportunity to review the resulting work. Public Designers 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 Public Designers by e-mail or fax and confirmed by post.

Public Designers 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.

Hosting websites
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Public Designers does not offer in-house hosting services. Public Designers can only suggest possible sub-contractors and does not guarantee continuous service and will accept no liability for loss of service, whatever the cause. Public Designers may request that clients change the type of hosting account used if that account is deemed by Public Designers to be unacceptable because of poor service, lack of bandwidth or in any other way insufficient to support the website. Fees due to the hosting organisation are the responsibility of the client and Public Designers are not liable for their payment.

Domain Registration
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Public Designers cannot guarantee the availability of any domain name. Where Public Designers 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.

Search Engine Submission
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Due to the infinite number of considerations that search engines use when determining a site's ranking, Public Designers 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.

Design Credits
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The customer agrees to allow Public Designers to place a small credit on printed material, exhibition displays, advertisements and/or a link to Public Designers's 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 Public Designers to place websites and other designs, along with a link to the client's site on Public Designers's own website for demonstration purposes and to use any designs in its own publicity.