Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern the services provided by dbb1.dev ("we," "us," or "the Provider") to you, the client ("you" or "the Client"). By approving a proposal, you agree to these Terms together with the scope, pricing, and phased delivery set out in that proposal. Where a proposal and these Terms conflict, the proposal controls for that engagement.

1. Scope of work & change orders

The work we will perform, the deliverables, and the timeline are defined in the approved proposal. Anything not expressly listed there is out of scope. New or changed requirements are handled as a change order — a separate proposal you approve before that work begins. We are not obligated to perform out-of-scope work until a change order is approved and (where it carries a fee) paid.

2. Fees & payment

Fees are stated in the approved proposal. There are two kinds:

• One-time build / development fees — charged up front (or per the proposal's schedule) to build the initial deliverable or a change order.
• Recurring subscription fees — the monthly development, hosting, and/or maintenance plan, billed in advance each billing cycle through our payment processor (Stripe).

Payment is due when you approve. A recurring plan renews automatically each cycle until cancelled under §4. You authorize us (via Stripe) to charge your payment method for the fees you approve, including recurring charges and any approved change orders or usage overages.

3. Refunds — build & development fees are non-refundable

One-time build and development fees are non-refundable. Because this work is bespoke, is performed against a scope you approved, and consumes our time immediately, we do not offer refunds of build or development fees once work has begun — including if you later cancel, change direction, or the engagement ends. This does not limit any remedy you may have for our failure to deliver the approved scope; it means fees for time already committed are not returned.

4. Hosting & maintenance — cancel any time, effective next cycle

You may cancel a recurring hosting or maintenance subscription at any time. When you cancel:

• The subscription remains active through the end of the current paid billing cycle — you keep the service you already paid for.
• It then ends automatically at the close of that cycle and does not renew.
• Cancellation is not prorated: we do not charge for the next cycle, and we do not refund the current cycle.

You can cancel from your client portal or by asking us; the effective end date is the end of your current cycle either way. We may also cancel or suspend a subscription for non-payment or material breach of these Terms.

5. Intellectual property & ownership

You own your data and the content you provide. On full payment of the applicable build fee for a deliverable, we assign to you the ownership of the custom work product created for you under that proposal. Until full payment, all work product remains our property. We retain ownership of our pre-existing tools, libraries, frameworks, and general know-how, and of any generic components we reuse across clients; to the extent these are embedded in your deliverable we grant you a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use them as part of it.

6. Client responsibilities

You agree to provide, in a timely way, the access, accounts, credentials, content, approvals, and decisions the work requires. Third-party services your project depends on (for example hosting infrastructure, APIs, or SaaS tools) are billed and governed by those third parties; their fees are yours unless the proposal states otherwise. Delays caused by missing inputs are not our responsibility and may shift timelines.

7. Warranties & disclaimer

We will perform the services with reasonable skill and care. Except as expressly stated, the services and deliverables are provided "as is" and we disclaim all other warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the software will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will meet requirements not stated in the approved scope.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to an engagement is limited to the amounts you paid us for that engagement in the three (3) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

9. Confidentiality

Each party will protect the other's non-public information disclosed in connection with the work and use it only to perform or receive the services. This does not cover information that is or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party, or that must be disclosed by law.

10. Term & termination

These Terms apply for as long as you have an active engagement or subscription with us. Either party may end an engagement as set out in the proposal and §4. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including §3 (non-refundable fees), §5 (ownership), §7–§9, and this section — survive.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms; when we do, we increment the version number. The version you accepted when you approved a proposal governs that engagement. Continued use of a recurring subscription after a new version takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms for that subscription's future cycles.

12. General

These Terms, plus the approved proposal, are the entire agreement between us on their subject and supersede prior discussions. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. Neither party is an agent, partner, or employee of the other.

13. Acceptance

By checking the acceptance box and approving a proposal, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms and to that proposal's scope and pricing, and that you are authorized to bind the Client.