Terms of service.

These terms cover your use of seamonstercoding.com and describe how project work with Seamonster Coding (“we”, “us”) generally runs. By using the website, you agree to them.

Every project is governed by its own written agreement, such as a proposal, statement of work, or contract. If your agreement and these terms differ, your agreement controls.

You're welcome to browse, read, and contact us. Please don't:

• use the site for anything unlawful or fraudulent;
• attempt to access areas or systems you're not authorized to use;
• interfere with the site's operation, or submit spam or malicious code through its forms; or
• copy the site's content or code in bulk for commercial use.

The text, design, graphics, and code of this website are owned by Seamonster Coding or used with permission. Screenshots and descriptions of client work appear with the client's agreement or reflect publicly available work.

Names and trademarks of other companies and products, such as WOWCube, belong to their owners. Mentioning them does not imply endorsement. The interactive demos in our portfolio use sample data and are labeled as concepts, not client projects.

Prices on this website are starting points, not offers. They change with each project's requirements, and the only binding price is the one in your written quote. See how pricing works.

Case studies describe past work in good faith. Every project is different, and they are not a promise of a particular result.

Unless your agreement says otherwise:

Scope and changes

Work begins after you approve a written scope and quote. If something new is added partway through, we price the addition and you decide whether to proceed before it starts.

Payment

• Projects require a 50% deposit to schedule the work, with the remaining 50% due at launch or final delivery.
• Support and maintenance plans are billed monthly in advance.
• Invoices are due within 15 days.

Third-party costs

Hosting, domains, paid APIs and services, software licenses, and stock assets are separate from our fees. We name them in the quote so the full cost of running the finished product is clear.

Your part

Timelines depend on timely feedback, content, and access from your side. You're responsible for having the rights to any materials you provide for the project.

• Your work is yours. Once your project is paid in full, you own the custom code, designs, and other deliverables created specifically for it.
• Our tools stay ours. We keep ownership of tools, libraries, and components we created before or independently of your project. Where they're part of your deliverable, you receive a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use them as part of your project.
• Open-source software included in a project remains under its own license.
• Portfolio. We may show the public-facing result of a project and describe our role, unless your agreement or a confidentiality agreement says otherwise, or you ask us not to.

We keep the non-public business information you share with us confidential and use it only to deliver your project. We're glad to sign a nondisclosure agreement before you share details.

We perform our work with professional care. Software also depends on services outside our control, such as hosting providers, third-party APIs, and browsers, so we can't guarantee uninterrupted operation or immunity from outages and evolving security threats after launch. Clients on a support plan receive priority fixes.

The website itself is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, to the extent permitted by law.

To the extent permitted by law, Seamonster Coding is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including lost profits or lost data, arising from use of this website or of software we deliver. Liability for project work is further described in your agreement.

This site links to client websites and other resources we don't control. We aren't responsible for their content or practices.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California. Any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Fresno County, California, unless your agreement provides otherwise.

We may update these terms and will change the effective date when we do. Updates don't change agreements already signed.

Questions about these terms: mckay@seamonstercoding.com. Seamonster Coding, Clovis, California.