Terms

Using this site

You are welcome to read, share and link to anything here. The writing, code, shaders and design on this site belong to NIX; please do not republish them as your own work. Do not attempt to disrupt the site or gain access to parts of it that are not public.

Everything on this page is provided as it is. We have taken real care with the accuracy of it, but we cannot promise the site is available without interruption.

Nothing here is an offer

Descriptions of services on this site are an invitation to talk, not a binding offer. A project exists once there is a written scope naming what gets built, what explicitly does not, the price and the dates, and you have accepted it. That document takes precedence over anything written here or said in conversation.

Quotes and payment

• Work is quoted at a fixed price where the shape of it is clear, and weekly where it honestly is not. Which one applies is stated in the scope before you commit.
• A quote is valid for 30 days.
• Fixed-price projects are invoiced 50% before work starts and the balance on delivery, unless the scope says otherwise.
• Invoices are due within 14 days. Work may pause on invoices more than 14 days overdue, and we will tell you before that happens rather than after.
• Prices exclude any tax that applies where you or we are located.
• Third-party costs — hosting, domains, API usage, paid services — are yours, on your own accounts, and are not marked up by us.

What you get, and who owns it

On final payment, you own the work — the code written for you, the designs made for you, and the content produced for you. Ownership transfers to you outright.

Two exceptions, both normal. Open-source components keep their own licences. And we keep the right to reuse the general techniques, knowledge and non-client-specific building blocks involved, because otherwise every project would forbid us from doing our job the next time.

Everything is delivered into your repository and your accounts, with a handover document written on the assumption that we are not around to explain it.

Confidentiality

Anything you tell us about your business is treated as confidential by default, without needing an NDA first. We will sign yours if you have one.

We will not name you as a client, describe your project, or show any part of it publicly without your written permission. That is why this site has no portfolio.

Your side of it

Projects stall for one reason more than any other: waiting. To keep a date, we need timely answers to questions, the access and accounts the work requires, and one person who can make decisions. If material you supply infringes someone else’s rights, that is on you rather than on us.

Revisions and scope

Refinement within the agreed scope is simply part of the work and is not rationed. A request that changes what was agreed is a change of scope: we will tell you what it costs and what it does to the date before doing it, never afterwards on an invoice.

Cancellation

You can stop a project at any time. You pay for work completed to that point, and you receive everything produced so far. If we have to stop — which we would only do for non-payment or if the work turned out to be something we should not be doing — you pay only for what was completed, and we refund the remainder of anything paid in advance.

After delivery

Defects in delivered work are fixed free for 30 days after delivery. That covers things that do not work as agreed. It does not cover new features, changes you make afterwards, or a third-party service changing underneath the work. Ongoing maintenance can be arranged separately.

What we do not promise

We will not promise a search ranking, a revenue figure, a conversion rate or a follower count, because those depend on a market rather than on code, and anyone promising them is guessing. We promise the work: built as agreed, on the date agreed, to a standard we will defend.

Where automation touches third-party platforms, those platforms change their rules and their APIs without asking either of us. We will build to their documented terms and tell you plainly what the risk is.

Liability

Except where the law does not allow it to be limited — and it does not allow limits on death, personal injury or fraud — our total liability for a project is capped at what you paid us for that project. Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential losses such as lost profit or lost data.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of India, and its courts have jurisdiction. If any part of this is unenforceable, the rest of it still stands.

Questions about any of this go to hello@nixagency.space. If a term here worries you, say so before we start — most of it is negotiable and we would rather agree it up front.