Back Office Geeks Website Design Terms and Conditions

These are the terms and conditions applicable to the purchase and sale of custom websites among you (Customer) and Back Office Geeks. Customer may elect to purchase additional services from Back Office Geeks, or their partners and/or other third parties, which have their own terms and conditions agreements and acceptable use agreements, aside from this agreement. Those agreements will be presented to Customer at the time of purchase and/or account login, and it is Customer’s obligation to review, accept and abide by those agreements as well as this agreement. 

1. Payment. As consideration for Back Office Geeks providing the Services hereunder, Customer agrees to pay Back Office Geeks fifty percent (50%) of the design fees set forth in the order summary upon execution of this Agreement. Back Office Geeks will bill final balance upon the earlier of i) 4 business days of making the site available for customer review or ii) 45 days from purchase date, regardless of Website progression.
2. Provision of Services. Back Office Geeks will provide Customer with the Services ordered that are described in the order summary. Customer understands and agrees that Back Office Geeks will publish the Website solely in accordance with the information provided by Customer in written form and telephone interview. After Customer provides all information and files, Back Office Geeks will begin building the Website. Unless otherwise indicated in the order summary, Back Office Geeks will deliver a complete Website within 45 calendar days. This is dependent on the customer providing all necessary content within 7 business days of the sale and Customer providing feedback on site progression stages within 2 business days. The Website will be made available for Customer to view prior to hosting for purposes of editing for corrections to content only. Editing beyond correction of content will be considered as additional services or part of the monthly update service (if Customer selects this service) and will be billed as such. Back Office Geeks will attempt to contact the Customer to notify that the site is completed, and ready to publish. In the event the Customer does not respond within 4 business days, the site shall become “passively accepted” by Customer and Back Office Geeks will publish the site and bill the remaining amount.
3. Rights to the Website and Content. With the exception of any Third-Party Materials and Background Technology as set forth in Section 4, Customer owns the Website and Customer Content. “Customer Content” means all content or information (including, without limitation, any text, music, sound, photographs, video, graphics, data, or software), in any medium, provided by Customer to Back Office Geeks. “Third-Party Materials” means any content, software, or other computer programming material that is owned by an entity other than Back Office Geeks, and licensed by Back Office Geeks or generally available to the public, including Customer, under published licensing terms, and that Back Office Geeks will use in the development of or to display or run a Website. The graphics utilized from Back Office Geeks’s graphics library are licensed from third-party suppliers. Back Office Geeks will provide Customer a limited, personal, nonexclusive, non transferable license to use the graphics during the term of this Agreement.
4. Limited License to the Background Technology. “Background Technology” means computer programming & formatting code or operating instructions developed by or for Back Office Geeks and used to create any portion of a Website or used to operate the Website or a Web server in connection with a Website. Background Technology includes, but is not limited to, any files necessary to make forms, buttons, check boxes, and similar functions and underlying technology or components, such as style sheets, animation templates, interface programs that link multimedia and other programs, customized graphics manipulation engines, and menu utilities, whether in database form or dynamically driven. Background Technology does not include any Customer content or any derivatives, improvements, or modifications of Customer Content. Customer agrees not to reverse-engineer, reverse-assemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive any source code of the Background Technology, except as allowed by law.
5. Limited License to Content. Customer hereby grants to Back Office Geeks the limited, nonexclusive right and license to copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, create derivative works from, modify, and otherwise use and exploit Website, any Customer Content, or any Customer Marks provided to Back Office Geeks hereunder, solely for the purpose of rendering Back Office Geeks’s Services under this Agreement. Such limited right and license shall extend to no other materials or for any other purpose and will terminate automatically upon termination of this Agreement for any reason.
6. Content Standards. Customer agrees not to provide Customer Content, and Back Office Geeks will not intentionally provide to Customers any content, that (a) infringes on any third party’s intellectual property or publicity/privacy rights; (b) violates any applicable law or regulation; (c) is defamatory, violent, clearly harmful, or obscene or pornographic or infringes on citizens’ rights; or (d) contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage or interfere with any system, data, or personal information. If Customer is international, then Customer agrees to comply with all applicable local and national laws. Back Office Geeks reserves the right to refuse any other subject matter it deems inappropriate.
7. Support. Back Office Geeks agrees to provide reasonable technical support to Customer during Back Office Geeks’s normal technical support hours. Back Office Geeks additionally agrees to provide Customer service support in the form of email and telephone during Back Office Geeks’s normal Customer support hours.
8. Term and Termination. (a) This Agreement is effective as of the Effective Date and shall continue unless terminated; (b) Back Office Geeks may terminate this Agreement after five (5) days’ written notice to Customer if Customer materially breaches this Agreement, including, without limitation, failure to pay, and fails to cure such breach during such five (5) day period; and (c) upon the termination of this Agreement, Customer will pay Back Office Geeks for all Services provided to Customer by Back Office Geeks prior to termination. All other Sections will survive the termination of this Agreement.
9. Back Office Geeks Warranties. Back Office Geeks warrants (a) that the Website will conform to specifications or acceptance criteria agreed to by the parties when delivered to Customer and for a period of one (1) year thereafter (the “Warranty Period”) and (b) that Back Office Geeks will perform the services in material conformity to the specifications contemplated hereunder in a professional and workmanlike manner. Back Office Geeks’s warranties and representations hereunder will not extend or apply to any Website modified by any party other than Back Office Geeks’s. In the event that Customer discovers an Error in the Website during the Warranty Period, Back Office Geeks’s sole responsibility will be to use reasonable commercial efforts to correct such Errors. “Error” means any reproducible error, problem, or defect resulting from (i) an incorrect functioning of the Background Technology that materially affects the functionality of the Website or (ii) any failure of the Website delivered to Customer to materially meet the specifications or acceptance criteria. All warranty claims not made in writing within the Warranty Period shall be deemed waived. Back Office Geeks’s warranty obligations are personal to Customer and may not be extended to any third party.
10. Warranty Disclaimer. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the Services and Customer Web sites are provided “as is,” and Back Office Geeks expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions of any kind, express, implied, or statutory, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of title, noninfringement, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. Each party acknowledges that it has not entered into this Agreement in reliance upon any warranty or representation except those specifically set forth herein. Unless an approval process is specified herein or in a Statement, all Websites provided by Back Office Geeks to Customer will be deemed accepted when delivered
11. Indemnity. (a) Customer Indemnity. Customer will defend Back Office Geeks against any third-party claim, action, suit, or proceeding alleging any breach of the covenants contained in Section 8. Subject to Section 13, Customer shall indemnify Back Office Geeks for all losses, damages, liabilities, and all reasonable expenses and costs incurred by Back Office Geeks as a result of any such third-party claim, action, suit, or proceeding. (b) Back Office Geeks’s Indemnity. Back Office Geeks will defend Customer against any third-party claim, action, suit, or proceeding alleging any breach of the covenants contained in Section 8. Subject to Section 13, Back Office Geeks shall indemnify Customer for all losses, damages, liabilities, and all reasonable expenses and costs incurred by Customer as a result of any such third-party claim, action, suit, or proceeding. (c) Mechanics of Indemnity. The indemnifying party’s obligations are conditioned upon the indemnified party: (i) giving the indemnifying party prompt, written notice of any claim, action, suit, or proceeding for which the indemnified party is seeking indemnity; (ii) granting control of the defense and settlement to the indemnifying party; and (iii) reasonably cooperating with the indemnifying party at the indemnifying party’s expense.
12. Limitation of Liability. Back Office Geeks’s liability hereunder shall not exceed the amount paid by Customer to Back Office Geeks during the three (3) month period before the action arose. Back Office Geeks shall not be liable for (a) any loss of use, loss of data, or interruption of business or (b) any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages of any kind (including, without limitation, lost profits), regardless of the form or action, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or otherwise, even if Back Office Geeks has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Customer acknowledges that these limitations are an essential element of this agreement, and absent such limitations, Back Office Geeks would not enter into this agreement.
13. Miscellaneous. This Agreement shall be governed solely by the laws of the State of California, excluding its principles of conflicts of laws. Any action under or relating to this Agreement shall be brought solely in the state and federal courts located in California, with sole venue in the courts located in Contra Costa County, and each party hereby submits to the personal jurisdiction of such Courts. Each party agrees that its performance under this Agreement shall in all respects conform to all applicable laws, rules, and regulations of the United States governing the export of technical information. Customer may not assign this Agreement without the prior, written permission of Back Office Geeks. Any purported assignment in violation of this will be void and without any effect. This Agreement may not be modified or amended except in writing, signed by both parties. Any purported oral modification or amendment of this Agreement in derogation of the foregoing shall be without any effect. Neither party may waive any right hereunder except expressly and in writing. This Agreement is the entire agreement between the parties with respect to this subject matter, and it supersedes all prior and contemporaneous discussions, negotiations, communications, and agreements with respect thereto.
14. Hosting Agreement Terms and Conditions. The terms and conditions associated with hosting services can be found at https://backofficegeeks.com/legal/web-hosting-terms-and-conditions/. In the event that Customer chooses to use hosting services provided by Back Office Geeks, Customer hereby acknowledges that they have read the terms and conditions associated with said Hosting Services and agrees to be bound thereby.