General terms & conditions
We proclaim that all materials that have been posted and published on www.approidtech.com, such as website design, content, images, logo, reviews, trademarks, layout, etc. are sole property of Approid Tech. The entire data is protected under copyright and intellectual property laws. No one is allowed to copy, use, transfer, modify, exploit and distribute Approid Tech property for commercial or non-commercial purpose. Without getting written content from our owner, nobody is authorized to use our name and logo for publicity or promotion purpose.
We reserve all rights to revise and modify our ‘Terms & Conditions’, URL name and other changes in services without any prior notice. Without intimating you, we are free to change terms, product pricing, warranties and specifications.
You are restricted to transmit or post any content on our website that is harassing, unlawful, obscene, pornographic, defamatory or any material, which may encourage misconduct will be considered a criminal offense from your end.
Breach of terms & conditions
If you fail to conform with the conditions, terms, agreements and notices, then the rights granted to you will end with self termination. Immediate termination of the downloaded material that you control or possess will be followed without giving any prior acknowledgment.
You agree to the policy that you will be responsible for your behavior. And, you will make the best efforts to protect Approid Tech as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, business partners, agents, licensors, joint venturers and third party information providers.
Project Terms:
All estimates/quotes are based on our understanding of your requirements and as per given time-frame. Any changes to the functionality including micro-improvements, may incur additional costs accordingly. Please ensure and clarify our understanding in communication.
By accepting a quote, you agree to and accept the terms and conditions of Approid Tech, Acceptance can be verbal, by email, payment of Initiation, signing a quote.
Clients to ensure that we have included all requirements in the quotes/proposals/estimates and that we fully understand their requirements. Clients must provide us with clear guidelines along with the flow or specific details they may require. When such details are not provided, we will proceed with our understanding of the requirements and quote accordingly. At a later stage, if a discrepancy arises, it may lead to additional costs to accommodate the changes. Thus, it is essential that you clarify every aspect of your website development and ensure that you have been quoted on the right requirements.
Any complexity related to specific tasks, must be advised in advance and included in the proposal for costing purposes. We operate in good faith and rely on our clients to disclose the full picture at the time of quotation. Any discrepancy arising due to unclear requirements will not be borne by Approid Tech.
There are limited man-hours allocated to each task including Project Management and Digital Strategist/Business Analyst. Minor changes may be included within the allocated hours. This will be analysed on a case-by-case basis.
- Approid Tech will make every effort to complete the project/changes in the given timeframe. Reasonable delays are accepted if functionalities are redefined or modified.
- Any delays at client’s end, may delay the project and proposed timeframes and may incur additional costs.
- Any bugs (programming errors) reported during or just after the development does not attract additional charges.
- Any re-work on an already completed task will attract additional charges. Any changes in the design after the design approval will incur additional charges.
- Any modifications requested during the development or after the Go-Live approval will incur additional charges. All additional work, over and above the estimates is charged separately. Under no circumstances will Synapse Worldwide be liable for any delays caused by change in the project brief.
- Website/application content and all related materials need to be provided to us within the first two weeks of starting the project. Any delays thereafter may delay the project and may incur additional charges if it goes beyond reasonable timeframe.
- Our websites/applications are generally tested on PCs and include near recent versions of following browsers: IE, Firefox, Chrome & Safari. If you require testing to be done on any other browser, please let us know in advance.
- Responsive/multi-device compatible web pages are tested on iPhone and iPads. If you require testing to be done on any other device, please discuss it in advance.
- If your website/application is not hosted on a Approid Tech server, any additional man-hours that may be required due to any server or network related issues are not covered in our quotes and may be charged separately.
- Please note that at any stage during the project, stalling of the project for over two calendar months will incur $99/week administration costs. Furthermore, it may increase the previously approved estimates. If you require the project to be put on hold, please advise us in writing in advance. To put the project on hold without incurring additional charges, we will need the account to be up to date based on the work done. Further details can be discussed if such a situation arises.
- Approid Tech CMS is a proprietary CMS of Approid Tech. Approid Tech owns copyrights of all codes written for any client, unless arrangements are made prior to start of the project. Synapse warrants a license to use any custom built software for the client, for their use only. This license is granted while paying for the hosting. Approid Tech CMS cannot be transferred to any external host; this includes any access to the software codes.
- The website or software application will be designed to be deployed on the web, via using a commercial grade web-server or a similar setup. Based on your website traffic, the website may not perform if deployed on a generic office network environment.
- Depending upon the functionalities required, there may be 3rd party components such as Third Party Payment Gateways or SSL certificates involved in building a website/application. Although Synapse Worldwide does its best in recognising the suitability of any such component, any unforeseen limitations of 3rd party components are beyond our control. Any third-party component purchase costs (such as SSL, Payment gateway, Google Adwords, Plug-in licenses etc) are not included in our quotes.
- Approid Tech takes no responsibility of any open source products such as WordPress, Open Source carts, Joomla etc. It is clients responsibility to update all components and third party softwares. We suggest you to take regular back-ups to avoid any disruptions.
- Approid Tech offer packages in co-ordination with third party providers. Changes to the third party provider’s rules and policies may ultimately effect the services we provide or the terms and conditions herein.
- The client must recognize that at times there may be unforeseen circumstances that will delay the development process, particularly with reference to the integration of third party software. We will try our best to complete the project as agreed in the proposal. As long as it is within a reasonable period, the client agrees not to penalize us for any genuine delay, when every effort to keep the project on the proposed schedule is taken.
- Domain registration/renewal etc charges are not included as a part of any project/proposal unless mentioned otherwise. If required, a quote for which will be submitted separately and approved by the client.
- Hosting charges are not included in the quotations unless mentioned otherwise. Approid Tech can organise an appropriate hosting solution if required, a quote for which will be submitted separately and approved by the client. Where clients decide to organise their own hosting, we should be consulted before finalising the type of hosting and database, as it should meet the requirements of the technology used for the development. Please note that we’ll require full access with hosting support for testing and deploying the application. Approid Tech will not be liable for any delays or errors caused by direct or indirect actions of the hosting company.
- Approid Tech generally builds and tests the websites/applications on our own servers or hosted domains. Approid Tech cannot give access to their test servers and test websites to the clients or any third party. The website/application can be transferred-off to a nominated 3rd party server upon full payment of all invoices and dues.
- Nothwithstanding any other provision in the agreement, in consideration of the Customer entering into this agreement with Approid Tech, upon full payment of any outstanding invoices, Approid Tech will grant an unconditional license to the Customer to reproduce, publish, communicate, use, exploit, vary, or otherwise deal with 1) the graphics, 2) texts and 3) images used in the published website and associated of form and functionality. This will not include the intellectual property relating to the production of the website including the digital strategies, programming codes, database structures, scripts, forms or functionalities.
- All communications/correspondences are generally done via emails. It is client’s responsibility to keep us updated with their relevant email addresses.
Intellectual Property:
All content of this website is a property of Approid Tech unless otherwise specified. Approid Tech reserves the right to change the content or policies without any prior notice.
The project related copyrights can be transferred to the client at an additional cost, after the full payment of the project and upon signing the Certificate of Acceptance. Approid Tech reserves the rights to refuse the transfer of ownership if irregular circumstances arise.
Copyrights handed over to the client do not include rights to re-use the code for another website or re-sell the programming codes for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. In the case of business restructuring or ownership change, ownership of the website may be transferred from one owner to another. New owners are not allowed to re-sell or re-use for any commercial or non-commercial purpose. Approid Tech is a proprietary CMS of Approid Tech and can not be transferred to any external host.
In an event of a Webmaster change, site owners are not allowed to display the credits to the new website, unless such time that the website functionality and appearance is changed by over 50% of our original work.
“Approid Tech” is a trade mark of Approid Tech of India, along with the symbol which consists of a ‘globe’ surrounded by the letter ‘S’ and also the logo “Synapse Worldwide: Quality – Innovation – Excellence”. Clients, Partners, Suppliers, Sub-contractors and any other 3rd party organisation or individual are not allowed to use Approid Tech trademarks including the name, logo and symbol in any way shape or form without a written permission from us.
Please note that Approid tech Worldwide reserves the right to change the terms and conditions without notice.