Our hours of business are Tuesday – Friday 9am – 5pm. We work on Monday’s but these days are dedicated to planing and meetings leaving the rest of the week to work on your project!
For issues relating to website hosting, domains, email or any website technical issue – clients should now visit support.thstudio.co.uk and raise a support ticket. Support tickets are dealt with within 24 hours during Monday – Friday, out of hours technical support could take longer. Please do not phone the studio for technical support or send support queries via text or social media.
If you have telephoned the studio and the call was unable to be answered and you have left a message we will reply to you at the earliest opportunity – please do not keep phoning – there may be a meeting taking place in the studio or we may be working off site.
We no longer take on same day turn around on projects however large or small the job with no exceptions – the minimum lead time for all new work going forward is 5 working days dependant on current list of projects being worked on – you will be advised of when your job can be booked in and the associated cost involved – upon approval of the cost the job will be scheduled in and you will be informed of when to expect completion from us. To maximise time on jobs 2 rounds of authors corrections are included in the cost – further amends will be charged at our hourly rate of £50+VAT where necessary.
Prior to the commencement of website development, clients are required to approve the final designs. Any substantial alterations requested after the design sign-off and during subsequent development will be subject to additional costs. These costs will be determined based on the scope and complexity of the requested changes. It is imperative that clients thoroughly review and confirm their design choices before the development phase begins to avoid any misunderstandings or delays. By agreeing to these terms, clients acknowledge their responsibility for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of their approved designs, thereby minimising the need for post-sign-off modifications.
Definitions:
‘The Client’ means the party, or any person acting on their behalf with whom thstudio contracts.
All charges & prices for services carried out by thstudio are subject to VAT (where applicable) at the prevalent rate.
All estimated prices quoted, whether written or verbal, are for the listed and mentioned services only. Any additional services required to complete a project will be quoted for in advance and charged accordingly. Deliveries and couriers are additional.
A 20% deposit of the total cost of a project is to be paid before any work will be scheduled in for any project.
All work is billed either monthly or on completion of project stage, or the relevant hourly charge as previously agreed.
All estimates are based on expected or agreed design time and include two sets of authors corrections where alterations are called for by the Client, or if additional changes are required by client.
Where there is a change of brief, thstudio will inform the Client in advance of any extra costs likely to be incurred.
All projects are planned to an agreed schedule. Non-adherence to this schedule by the Client may result in compromising final delivery deadlines. If this is likely to occur, thstudio will advise the Client as soon as this becomes evident and suggest an alternative solution where feasible. This may incur additional costs.
Whilst every effort will be made to achieve agreed delivery, thstudio cannot accept liability or be held financially responsible for any targets or deadlines being missed for delivery of any work which is outside of the Company’s control.
For all new clients payment for the full or part amount + VAT may be requested in advance of commencement, as agreed between parties. For any subsequent invoiced work, thstudio must receive full payment not later than 15 days after the date of Invoice. The Company reserves the right to make a surcharge of 2% per month interest to accounts that are not paid by this time. Client credit screening may affect any subsequent credit agreement.
Once a client has agreed to thstudio’s current Terms and Conditions on a credit account with the company, thstudio shall invoice in project stages e.g. Stage 1 Conceptual Design, Stage 2 Detailed Design and Design Development etc. Upon stage completion unless where exceptional terms have been agreed with the client.
thstudio reserves the right to invoice for any disbursements for part works carried out including third party costs incurred on a project should the project be unable to be completed for any reason or has been delayed/put on hold by the Client for a period of 4 weeks or more then stage invoicing will occur.
In good faith, thstudio would hold any supplied files, originals and materials for a period of up to 12 months. Resumption of works on the project would be completed according to the original schedule of costs so long as the project specification remained unaltered.
Disbursements on behalf of any client may result in a request for payment in advance from the Client.
All creative work produced and devised during a project(s), creative, digital, software files and related correspondence remain the property – physically, intellectually and in copyright, of thstudio until full payment has been made on the Client’s account, and all project costs have been cleared.
Once final proofs/materials have been signed off, thstudio cannot be held responsible financially or otherwise for any errors relating to print, programming or any end product.
It is the responsibility of the Client that all materials (including, but not limited to images, diagrams, logos, videos, data, as well as intellectual property in other media) supplied to thstudio by the client will have the relevant copyrights, licenses and permissions for use in the commissioned project. thstudio will not accept responsibility/liability for infringements caused by any wrongly supplied materials.
thstudio reserves the right to commission freelance support or outsource any job if it is felt it is in the best interests of the Client. Any outsourced job remains the property/responsibility of thstudio and such services are deemed to be carried out ‘indirectly’ by thstudio.
As part of larger projects which involve 3rd parties commissioned directly by the client, thstudio will not be held responsible in any way for services not carried out/managed directly or indirectly by the thstudio.
Advice of any loss, quality or damage issues must be reported to the thstudio within five clear working days of delivery and receipt (whether be printed or digital) and and any claim in respect thereof must be made in writing to the Company within 3 working days thereafter. thstudio shall not be liable in respect of any claim unless the aforementioned requirements have been complied with.
In the event of any bona fide dispute or difference arising between the parties in connection with the Contract (excluding any dispute relating to non payment of the Charges, for whatever reason), the parties shall attempt to resolve such dispute or difference in good faith or by mediation. It is the responsibility of the Client to inform thstudio immediately of any issue that may lead to a dispute (including but not limited to quality, service, cost, deadline), without such information, no disputes will be entered into.
Every endeavor will be made to deliver the correct printed quantity ordered, but estimates are conditional upon margins of 5%. thstudio reserves the right to change/alter ordered amounts in the Clients best interest.
Whilst taking every care to protect all media and correspondence supplied, thstudio cannot accept liability or be held responsible financially or otherwise for any loss. Disputes will not be entered into.
thstudio cannot guarantee the Client exclusivity of any marketing concept, strategy, design or other intellectual property provided. Therefore thstudio will not accept liability for any alleged claim from the Client or any Third Party as the result of unintentional similarity in part or whole of a Third Party’s copyright protected or registered trademark or brand, identity, strapline, colour usage, image style and content, product or otherwise.
It remains the Client’s responsibility to seek copyright protection if desired for any creative/intellectual property provided to the Client by thstudio.
If at any point during the design or development cycle a client wishes to cancel, they may do so but will be invoiced an amount that thstudio judges to be proportional to the amount of work completed on the commission and further compensatory charges for booked design time or printing press time or any other supply costs accruing.
thstudio reserves the right to the addition of our company credit on printed or digital projects unless instructed otherwise by the Client and, to the use for self-promotion any work carried out for the Client.
thstudio reserves the right to use both initial creative concepts and final approved design work for the purposes of the thstudio’s marketing activities (both online and offline) unless otherwise requested/agreed with the Client.
Terms and Conditions may be changed at any time without prior notice to its clients. Notification will be sent to all clients at the time of the Terms and Conditions alterations.
thstudio shall be under no liability if it should be unable to carry out any provision of the contract for any reason beyond it’s control including (without limiting the foregoing), Act of God, Legislation, War, Act of terrorism, Fire, Flood, Drought, Failure of power supply, Lock out, Strike by employee’s in contemplation of furtherance of dispute or inability to procure materials required for the performance of the contract. During the continuance of such a contingency the Customer may, by written notice, elect to terminate the contract and pay for work done and materials used, but subject thereto, shall otherwise accept delivery when available.
thstudio will have a lien over any product, data or materials if all payments due from you have not been paid and cleared in full within 1 month from the date of the invoice. We reserve the right to withhold supply of goods and, in the case of web services, this includes recalling services including the hosting of websites.
The Client is agreeing fully to thstudio’s trading Terms and Conditions by commissioning our services.
thstudio provide a reactive hosting service for all websites and offer a 99% uptime. We do not constantly check the websites we host to ensure they are functioning correctly as routine use, maintenance and software updates can affect website functions. It is therefore the responsibility of the client to ensure their website is operating as it should.
thstudio state that the customer’s website, which is hosted on its servers will be available 99.9% of the time, excluding maintenance, as defined below. Network downtime is defined as the customer’s hosted website being unable to be viewed or accessed through the Internet, caused by failure of network equipment managed and owned by thstudio., excluding scheduled or emergency maintenance.
Maintenance means scheduled maintenance or emergency maintenance. Scheduled Maintenance means any maintenance on the thstudio servers of which the customer is notified at least 5 days in advance. Emergency maintenance means any maintenance on the thstudio servers that: (a) in thstudio’s sole discretion, is necessary to avoid an immediate threat to the thstudio servers or customer’s server and (b) of which customer is notified.
Support, unless noted otherwise in a supplementary service level agreement, technical support is provided by thstudio on a first-come, first-served “best effort” basis. We aim to at least acknowledge, if not fully answer, all emails to our advertised support address ([email protected] or tickets raised at support.thstudio.co.uk) within 4 working hours. We aim to answer the phones during working hours, but under times of high demand or staff sickness, may defer to an answering service where we promise to return all messages as soon as possible.
For those websites hosted by thstudio which have been built (or part-built) upon the WordPress platform, please be aware that WordPress irregularly makes updates which means that thstudio may need to make updates to your site so that your website continues to work upon our servers. It is not known how many times per annum that WordPress makes updates. The more functionality a WordPress site has the more time needed to make updates to that website.
thstudio works reactively for such updates – we respond should we be informed of a critical change (by WordPress) or should the client point out an error in functionality. Please note, thstudio cannot be held responsible for any functionality failure caused directly by an update to WordPress or a plug-in of which we were not made aware.
If we have developed a content managed website for a client then the content on the site should be managed by the client, we are not responsible for uploading content on your behalf outside of the initial design & development remit, training for managing content is offered on all websites developed by us – this is provided at our offices, the clients office, remotely via Skype and also by provision of video guidance for common tasks. If you require additional training support or materials then this will be charged at our hourly rate of £50+VAT
The maintenance of your website, including updates and and use of secure passwords is the responsibility of the client. If your website is compromised because of hacking through you not updating your CMS when needed or installing third party plugins a recovery fee of £35+VAT will be chargeable if you wish us to fix it. If you decide to take out a yearly maintenance plan on your website then the responsibility for updates and general maintenance will be with thstudio. Maintenance plans are £150+VAT per year – include a monthly health check of your website, updates to the system and plugins and an all round security check to protect against vulnerabilities.
On occasion, when budget, time or requested functionality limits the opportunity for a bespoke build, an off-the-shelf solution in the form of a third party plug-in may be implemented.
Premium plug-ins may in some cases, require a subscription based or one-off licensing fee. Whilst thstudio will make every effort to minimise ongoing maintenance costs, premium plug-ins will need to be updated outside of our update agreement, with any additional costs agreed by and passed onto the client.
If we host a website that was not developed by us we are not responsible for technical support on that website that does not relate to the hosting – we are happy to offer an opinion but you should refer to the original developer to resolve any issues that are not hosting (thstudio) or content (Client) related.
Any website hosted by us is fully backed up in it’s entirety every weekend and the backup is kept off site, a snapshot backup is taken everyday. If we have to restore a site from a backup due to client error then the a flat fee of £35+VAT is payable.
Website hosting runs annually, paid in advance. An invoice will be sent automatically at the time of renewal. Should a client not wish for thstudio to renew the hosting service, we request a notice period of one month in advance of cessation along with details to where you would like the web files sent. If we do not hear such a request, it will be assumed that you do wish the web hosting to be renewed and are in agreement with the terms for the following year.
Should thstudio be informed after this months notice period, thstudio cannot be held liable for any delays caused in the transfer of hosting of your website to another server.
Our web hosting terms runs in conjunction with thstudio’s standard terms and conditions.
thstudio reserve the right to suspend hosting services that are unpaid by 60 days. Any Services are subject to being reclaimed and all content deleted if you fail to make a timely payment. If you make a late payment we are not obliged to automatically reactivate the account.
The customer shall not be entitled to any credit hereunder if the network downtime is caused by: (i) actions of the customer or others authorised by the customer to use the service under the Agreement; (ii) customer application, software, or customer’s operating system failure, (iii) the result of network maintenance activity, (iv) denial of service attack, hacker activity, or other malicious event or code targeted against thstudio. or a thstudio customer, or (v) failure of any network or Internet Infrastructure not owned or managed by thstudio. (vi) If customer has more than one website hosted on thstudio’s server, then a claim may be accepted for one hosted website.