ColourBurned Design maintains certain policies to guide contractual relationships between this site and the client. The purpose of this Policy is to affirm, in a comprehensive statement, required standards of conduct and practices with respect to business conducted through this site.
STATEMENT OF POLICY
Contractual Obligations
No work will be done on a project until a contract is signed and returned to ColourBurned.com. All line-items outlined in the contract will be followed by both parties in order to maintain a productive timeline and quality product for the client. It is the client's responsibility to voice concern, or add to, the contract in prior to endorsement.
Questionable Statements
While it is our wish to make sure your design represents you, I reserve the right to end a contract and pull all source materials in my ownership from the client if there are any statements or artwork that can be considered directly in conflict or to directly attack a Political, Religious, or Racial group. If there are any concerns of this at the time of establishing a contract, the lines can be drawn at that point to define the confines of the contract prior to endorsement.
Reports and Reviews
As per contract, there will be periodic progress reports and reviews of a design project so that the client knows that quality work is being delivered. These time frames and milestones can be established when drawing the contract, and I am very flexible during the design process if the client would like additional involvement with the design to ensure it is what they are paying for.
Payments for Services
Once the final product is finished, approved, and delivered to the client via the medium outlined in the contract; payment is expected to be delivered in full within 30 days of the closing of the project. This will be outlined and detailed in the contract, and exceptions can be made if discussed and agreed upon in writing by both parties.
Requesting Non-Contract Services
The contract will state exactly what work is being delivered. Any work outside the lines of that contract is to be considered a separate project and will require a separate contract, unless otherwise agreed apon in writing by both parties. Any project that requires regular updates, additions, or further involvement from me after the product is delivered can be discussed prior to endorsing the contract and agreed as to the expectations of both the client, and myself in those situations.
Violations of this Policy
A contract agreement between the client and myself is held accountable in a court of law. While it is preferable to avoid such confrontations, it is my desire to make sure you receive the exact service you expect. A contract is binding, but can be rewritten to adhere to new conditions if both parties are willing to do so, and state the termination of the prior contract with the new contract as the binding operation. The contract is more for the protection of everyone involved to make sure everyone receives what is fairly due to them. I've never had an issue with this, but the use of a contract lends a certain security to knowing that there is a legal backing to the agreement on a project. All contracts are reviewed by both the client, and myself, and anyone you wish to verify the contract at the time of endorsing. Even if only one signature is on the paper, at that moment the contract is bound and no changes can be made without writing a new contract with new endorsements.
A contract is "an agreement creating and defining the obligations between two or more parties".
- Sir John William Salmond
