Terms of service

Scope of these terms

These terms govern your use of the Fixed Price Software website and the marketing communications attached to it (enquiry form, email reply, scheduling a call). They do not govern a paid software development engagement — every engagement is covered by its own written contract that we agree before any work starts.

If anything on this page conflicts with the contract for a specific engagement, the engagement contract wins.

Who we are

Fixed Price Software is a trading name. Contact details, postal address and (once registered) company-registration number will appear on this page as the business is formally constituted; in the meantime hello@fixedpricesoftware.co.uk reaches us.

What we do

We design and build software to a fixed-price specification. The Services page lists the kind of work we take on, the Process page describes how an engagement runs end-to-end, and the Pricing page sets out the commercial mechanics.

Everything on those pages describes our general practice and is not a binding offer. The binding offer is the written quote we send you after the specification phase.

Using the website

You may use the website for any lawful purpose. You may not:

• Use it in a way that breaks any law or regulation, or that infringes someone else's rights.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to it, the underlying systems, or any account that isn't yours.
• Run automated tools against it that aren't standard search-engine crawlers (e.g. credential stuffing, scraping at unreasonable rates, vulnerability probing without prior written agreement).
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of it beyond what UK law expressly permits.
• Use it to send spam, malware, or any unlawful or harmful content.

Submitting an enquiry constitutes a representation that you are authorised to share the information you submitted (e.g. you own or have permission to disclose the project description).

Intellectual property

All content on this website — text, layout, design, code, MDX authored by us, and the "Fixed Price Software" name and wordmark — is owned by us or licensed to us. You may share links to public pages freely; you may not reproduce the content elsewhere without our written permission.

Open-source components used on this site (Next.js, Tailwind, the libraries listed in package.json of our public repository) remain under their respective licences, attribution-preserved.

For the avoidance of doubt about paid engagements: every line of code we write for a client becomes the client's property when the final invoice for that engagement is paid. The terms here apply only to the website itself.

No professional advice

The website (including the FAQ and any blog) provides general information about software development. It is not legal, financial, tax, or any other kind of professional advice. Don't rely on it as such; take your own advice before making decisions that depend on it.

Availability and warranties

We try to keep the website up, but we don't guarantee uninterrupted availability. We may take it offline for maintenance, fix bugs at any time, or change the content of pages.

To the maximum extent allowed by law, the website is provided "as is". We don't warrant it's free of defects, secure, or fit for any particular purpose. We do try our best.

Liability

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for:

• Death or personal injury caused by our negligence
• Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation
• Any other liability that UK law doesn't permit us to limit

Subject to that:

• We aren't liable for business losses, lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or pure economic loss arising from your use of the website.
• Our total liability arising out of your use of the website is capped at £100, which we think is a fair reflection of the fact that you haven't paid us anything to be here.

The above is the website-specific position. Liability for a paid engagement is set out separately in that engagement's contract, which typically sits at a much higher cap proportionate to the project value.

Third-party links

Where we link out to a third-party site, we don't endorse it and we aren't responsible for its content or its handling of your data. Check that site's own terms and privacy notices.

Privacy

The Privacy policy explains how we handle the personal data we collect from visitors and enquiry submissions. The Cookies policy covers what state we do (and don't) store in your browser.

Changes to these terms

We can update these terms from time to time. The Last updated date at the top of the page reflects the most recent revision. Your continued use of the website after a change means you accept the new terms; if you don't, please stop using the site and tell us.

Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms and any non-contractual obligations arising in connection with them are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales — unless you are a consumer ordinarily resident in another part of the UK, in which case you may bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the UK where you live.

Get in touch

Anything unclear? hello@fixedpricesoftware.co.uk. We'd rather you ask than guess.

Final note

These terms are written to be readable. They are not a substitute for legal advice; if you're entering into a commercial relationship based on them you should take your own. We'll have a solicitor review this page before going live commercially; until then this is an honest first draft.