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Terms of
Service

Effective: June 12, 2026 Active agreement

[01]

Agreement framework

By accessing the digital portals or initiating development contracts with Brown Code, you agree to be bound by this operational codebase. Read these statements before finalising your staging pipeline deposits.

[02]

Scope of work

All feature sets, server timelines, deployment models, and design systems are explicitly detailed inside a project contract before launch. Any requests introduced after development has begun will be treated as separate extensions and billed outside the initial scope.

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Financial milestones

Projects run on step-by-step milestone payments as outlined in your original quote.

Rule 3.1: Initial deposits are non-refundable once infrastructure allocation or code assembly has started.

Rule 3.2: Delays in balance payments exceeding 14 business days will pause code assembly until balances are settled.

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Intellectual property

Until final payment is cleared, all mockups, private GitHub branches, and custom systems remain the intellectual property of Brown Code. Upon receipt of full final payment, complete production ownership, licence permissions, and deployment access keys are transferred to the client.

[05]

Hosting liability

I build performant systems using modern stacks (Next.js, Tailwind, Firebase). However, I am not responsible for third-party hosting outages (Vercel, AWS), domain registration lapses, or external API modifications that occur after deployment.

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Contract termination

Either party holds the right to terminate a project engagement if the other party breaches the defined terms. In the event of early termination, the client will be billed proportionally for all milestones completed up to that exact date.