By using TechCole and signing up as a Client, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions of Use, including those terms and conditions incorporated by reference. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions, you may not use the TechCole service. By placing any order with TechCole you agree to all our terms and it is your responsibility to read our terms. TechCole may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this web page periodically to review the Terms and Conditions, because they are binding on you. In these Terms and Conditions, all services provided by and related to TechCole and all text, images, photographs, user interface, “look” and “feel”, data and other content (including, without limitation, the selection, coordination and arrangement of such content) are sometimes referred to as the “Web Site” and/or “Service”.

You acknowledge and agree that TechCole shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion, to pre-screen, refuse or remove any project and/or user provided content that violates these Terms and Conditions or is otherwise objectionable, including, without limitation, projects or content that is illegal, obscene, indecent, defamatory, incites religious, racial or ethnic hatred, or violates the rights of others. Activity that is brought to our attention which appears in our sole judgment to violate the law will be brought to the attention of the proper authorities. You acknowledge, consent and agree that TechCole may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce these Terms and Conditions; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third-parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TechCole its users and the public.

TechCole General Services

• (a) Description.TechCole Service is an online service where individuals or entities that have signed up with TechCole as clients (each, a “Client”) can post specific assignments and project descriptions, including illustrative samples or other media (each, a “Creative Brief”), revise those Creative Briefs (each, a “Revision Brief”) and obtain responses (each, a “Response”) to those Creative or Revision Briefs from design experts retained by TechCole (“Members”). TechCole will provide you, as the Client, the Service according to the Package you have chosen as detailed in section 1(e) below. Your Responses will be created iteratively through a drafting cycle of Creative Briefs, Revision Briefs and Responses, ultimately resulting in a final Response conforming to your various Creative and Revision Briefs.
• (b) Creative Brief and Responses.You are solely responsible for preparing and posting detailed descriptions of each of your Creative Briefs to the Web Site, including providing samples illustrating your Creative Brief and any relevant deadlines. For each Response to a Creative Brief that you want to receive, a term sheet (a “Term Sheet”) will be generated that will contain, and be subject to, the terms and conditions you have established for the Creative or Revision Brief. TechCole is under no obligation to review a Creative or Revision Brief or Term Sheet for any purpose, including accuracy, completeness of information, quality or clarity. TechCole may decide, in its sole discretion, to deny a Creative or Revision Brief or a Term Sheet.
• (c) Reviewing Responses.When TechCole provides you with a Response, you are responsible for reviewing the Response. If you fail to promptly inform TechCole that the Response is not reasonably responsive to the related Term Sheet or Creative Brief, you will be deemed to have accepted the Response. If you notify TechCole that you think a Response is not reasonably responsive to the related Creative Brief, you shall then submit to the Web Site a Revision Brief containing information regarding amendments or modification to be made to the initial Response. After you provide TechCole with a Revision Brief, TechCole will provide you with a subsequent Response that conforms to the additional criteria you requested. TechCole is not responsible for the content of Responses developed to the extent that such Responses are prepared to conform to your Creative or Revision Briefs.
• (d) Revision Cycles.Revision cycles generally consist of unlimited additional compositions that incorporate changes you request in a Revision Brief. The purpose of the revision process is to create Responses that move your project forward in the specific direction you have determined. You may request significant changes in the first and second cycles, and the Responses generated might be quite different in nature from the original composition you selected. By the third revision request, your requests shall be modifications of the current composition only. Revision requests that depart from the then-current composition will be honored and completed in a timely manner, however; TechCole reserves the right to charge the client for each such Revision. No revision work, which requires payment, will be started without your authorization.
• (e) Packages.You may select from the following Service Packages: Web Design Packages | Ecommerce Website Packages | Web Portal Packages | Web Maintenance Packages | Digital Marketing Packages | Branding Packages | Animated Video Packages

Registration, Password, User Identity

• (a) Your User Identity.When you register as a Client, you will create a user identity (your “User Identity”), which will be your identity for purposes of interacting with other users through the Web Site. Your User Identity will include certain personal information, such as, the industry in which you operate. However, your user name need not be your real name. During the registration process, the fields requesting information that will be made available to others as part of your User Identity are identified. You are responsible for ensuring that you are comfortable making such information available to other Web Site users.
• (b) Access Numbers, Passwords, and Password Access.You shall keep confidential, shall not disseminate, and shall use solely in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, your User Identity, registration identification and password for the Web Site. You shall immediately notify TechCole if you learn of or suspect: (I) any loss or theft of your User Identity, registration identification or password, or (ii) any unauthorized use of your registration identification or password or of the Web Site. In the event of such loss, theft, or unauthorized use, TechCole may impose on you, at TechCole‘sole discretion, additional security obligations.
• (c) Security Breaches and Revision.If any unauthorized person obtains access to the Web Site as a result of any act or omission by you, you shall use your best efforts to ascertain the source and manner of acquisition and shall fully and promptly inform TechCole You shall otherwise cooperate and assist in any investigation relating to any such unauthorized access.

Ownership; Rights to Use

• (a) Creative and Response Briefs.Upon submission of a Creative or Response Brief or any other information or media provided by you in connection with your use of the Service (collectively, the “Client Information”), TechCole and its agents shall have all rights and licenses necessary to use such Client Information for the purpose of obtaining Responses and for archival purposes. Each Member to whom your project is made available has the right to review and display the relevant Term Sheet for purposes of preparing a Response.
• (b) Rights of TechCole.Upon your submission of Client Information to the Service, you grant TechCole a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable, exclusive, worldwide right (including any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, communicate to the public, perform and display (in whole or in part), and/or incorporate in other works, in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, such Client Information, for the full term of any intellectual property rights that may exist in such Client Information to the extent necessary to provide you with the Service and Responses.
• (c) Rights of Clients.Subject to your compliance with these Terms and Conditions, you shall own the final Response composition provided to you by TechCole (the “Final Product”). You shall not, however, own any materials, media or other content generated during any revision cycles leading up to the Final Product, and TechCole expressly reserves all right, title and interest in and to the same. You acknowledge and hereby grant to TechCole a royalty-free, irrevocable exclusive worldwide right to use Creative and Revision Briefs, individual Responses provided to you, and Final Product for internal and archival purposes, and in order to display and promote the TechCole Service. TechCole retains the rights to all artwork concepts and other content not selected by you.

Nondisclosure and Privacy

• TechCole intends to use commercially reasonable efforts to follow its privacy policy; as such, privacy policy may be changed from time to time at TechCole‘sole discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, TechCole cannot and does not assume any responsibility or liability for any information submitted to the Web Site or for the use or misuse of any information submitted by you or any other person, including, without limitation, any information accessed by a hacker or by any other malice.

Eligibility, Access, Use and Service

• (a) Eligibility Requirements.To register as a Client, you must be at least 18 years of age, agree to these Terms and Conditions and TechCole privacy policy, and complete the registration procedure. By registering as a Client, you represent and warrant that you meet these eligibility requirements, that the information you include as part of the registration process is complete and accurate and, if you are registering on behalf of an entity, that you are authorized to bind that entity to these Terms and Conditions. TechCole may accept or reject your registration in its sole discretion.
• (b) Authorization to Use; Permitted Uses.You may access and use the Service solely in accordance with these Terms and Conditions and any posted policies and procedures that appear on the Web Site. You may provide Creative Briefs and obtain Responses only if you register as a Client. Any use of the Web Site is at your sole risk and responsibility. Subject to these Terms and Conditions, your may (I) display the Web Site on an Internet access device.
• (c) Prohibited Uses.Except as expressly permitted in these Terms and Conditions, you may not display or print the Web Site and in no event may you broadcast, circulate, distribute, download, perform, publish, rent, reproduce, sell, store, transmit or create decorative works from the Web Site. Additionally, you agree to comply with all applicable laws (including, without limitation, any applicable export controls) in connection with your use of the Service, and with such further limitations or rules as may be set forth on the Web Site. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to transmit, distribute, post, communicate or store information or other material on, to or through the Web Site that:
  
  • (I) reveals trade secrets, unless you own them;
  • (ii) infringes on any other proprietary or intellectual property rights of others, on the privacy or publicity rights of others, or any statutory right;
  • (iii) is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity;
  • (iv) is sexually-explicit;
  • (v) constitutes advertisements or solicitations of business, chain letters or pyramid schemes; or
  • (vi) contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information.
  You further agree not to:
  • (a) use any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or other information for purposes of registering as a Client;
  • (b) delete or revise any material or other information of any other user of TechCole;
  • (c) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Web Site’s infrastructure;
  • (d) use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or any activity being conducted on the Web Site;
  • (e) use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including, without limitation, browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search the Web Site, other than the search engine and search agents available from TechCole on the Web Site and other than generally available third-party web browsers (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator); or
  • (f) attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse-engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Web Site.
• (g) Web Site Security.You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Web Site, including, without limitation:
  
  • (I) accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account that you are not authorized to access;
  • (ii) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;
  • (iii) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, by way of submitting a virus to, or overloading, “flooding”, “spamming”, “mail bombing” or “crashing”, the Web Site;
  • (iv) sending unsolicited email to any user of the Web Site, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or
  • (v) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or posting generated in connection with the Service.

  Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. TechCole will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations. TechCole reserves the right to review postings on the Web Site, to remove any postings, and to terminate your ability to communicate with, or post to, the Web Site at any time without notice, in its sole discretion.

• (e) Operation of Web Site.TechCole shall not be responsible for any delays or interruptions of, or errors or omissions contained in, the Web Site. TechCole reserves the right, but shall not be required, to correct any such delays, interruptions, errors or omissions. Although TechCole intends to use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Web Site and Service accessible, TechCole makes no representation, warranty or covenant that the Web Site or Service will be available at all times or at any time. Various circumstances may prevent or delay availability, including telecommunications and/or server problems. TechCole may at any time discontinue the Web Site in whole or in part, may change or eliminate any transmission method, and may change transmission speeds or other signal characteristics. TechCole shall not be responsible for any loss, cost, damage or liability that may result from any of the circumstances, actions or inactions described in this paragraph.

Communications

• By using the TechCole Service, you agree to receive, via email or otherwise, status notifications, a monthly newsletter, and carefully selected special offers and promotions for certain products and services that we believe could be of value to our Clients. This is essential to maintaining the low-cost of our services. You are free to unsubscribe from any newsletters we send to you at any time. TechCole may or may not use a third party to send email or otherwise contact you, however, your personal identifying information will never be disclosed or shared with another party in a manner inconsistent with TechCole‘privacy policy.

Validity of Refund

Money Back Guarantee is valid till 15 business days of order placement, provided that all other terms are applied. Money Back Guarantee is valid only if you have not requested revisions for any design sample/concept within your order.

• Once you request a revision/change in the provided design sample/concepts, you agreed to proceed further with our services and cannot claim any refunds. You cannot claim refund on change of mind.
• You are eligible for a full refund (less 10% processing fee) if the order is cancelled within 24 hours of order placement. This policy will not be applicable if the initial designs are delivered or revisions are requested within the mentioned timeframe. Similarly, no refund requests due to change of mind will be entertained after the mentioned timeframe.
• If request for refund is made before the delivery of initial design(s), then you would be eligible for Full Refund (less 10% service & processing fee).
• If request for refund is made within 48 hours, you would be eligible for 66% refund (less 10% service & processing fee).
• If request for refund is made between 48-120 hours of the initial design delivery, you would be eligible 33% refund (less 10% service & processing fee).
• No refund request will be entertained after 120 hours of your initial design delivery, however since we believe in 100% customer satisfaction you’re encouraged to contact us in case of any concern.
• No refund request will be entertained if you have not taken any action on your order for 30 days after placing your order. However, if you want to reactivate your design order, you will be charged a certain fee depending on your project.
• No refund requests will be entertained after the final files have been delivered.
• For website packages no refund request will be entertained once website development has been completed or once the website has been deployed live.
• For video animation packages no refund request will be entertained after the designing of the storyboard.
• All refund requests should be communicated to the support department. TechCole, based on the violation of your user agreement reserves the right to approve/disapprove your request on an individual case to case basis.
• For TechCole, custom packages refund will be applicable as it is on the single packages.
• For example, if you order logo and web design service and approve the logo, you can claim refund for the website service at the time of initial design only.
• A refund request will need to have a valid reason which must be qualified against the design brief and customer feedback for revisions. Unless a concept has not been designed according to the brief, a refund will not be given however further revisions will be provided until complete satisfaction.
• Money back guarantee is based on the term that the order is placed in good faith. Where a customer has placed design orders with more than one design agency for the same job with the intention to claim refund, we do not consider it as a good faith. In such a case we reserve the right to decline a refund request.
• All design jobs require customer feedback before finalizing the design therefore it is only fair that the customer gets involved and provides feedback in order to get the desired results.
• 100% unique design guarantee entitles you to re-draw if our designed logo is to be found considerably similar to another logo design that may already exist. Any resemblance to an existing design will be merely a coincidence and TechCole will not accept any responsibility or claim of any compensation in such a case. It is the client’s responsibility to get their art work copyrighted.

Disclaimers; Indemnification; Limitations of Liability

(a) Responsibility for Content.TechCole shall not be responsible for any use that is or is not made of the Web Site or the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, TechCole makes no representations, warranties or covenants regarding, and does not guarantee, the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any information or other material (including, without limitation, any Creative Brief, Term Sheets, Responses or User Identity) that are communicated through, or posted to, the Service, whether by Members, Clients, TechCole or otherwise, nor does TechCole endorse any opinions expressed by any user of the Web Site, including any Member or Client. Without limiting the foregoing, TechCole makes no representations, warranties or covenants regarding the validity of the rights to Responses granted pursuant to these Terms and Conditions. You acknowledge that any reliance on information or other material, including, without limitation, any information related to a particular Package or your project, Term Sheet, Response or User Identity, communicated through the Service, or posted to, the Web Site, will be at your own risk. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree and acknowledge that you use each Response at your own risk and that you are responsible for taking any actions you deem reasonable to determine whether your use of a Response will infringe any statutory or third-party intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights. Photos / Images: TechCole shall not be responsible for any use of photos that are not royalty free. It is the clients’ responsibility to purchase and pay for all rights to use any photos, images, graphics, icons, logos, and/or designs for any designs created by TechCole for the client. This includes websites, website templates, brochures, business cards, postcards, stationery, signage, animations, commercials, slogans, flyers, banners, stickers, promotional items, and/or desktop wallpapers.

If the customer closes the project by his/herself for the reason they have not with TechCole, a cancellation fee (which is 50% of the project cost) would be applied.

SMS Terms & Conditions

The Terms of Service related to SMS communication must either be included in the privacy policy or be a stand-alone document.