These terms
These terms cover two things: using this website, and engaging DevTrios for work. By browsing the site you accept the parts about the site. The parts about projects apply once you sign a proposal or statement of work with us.
Where a signed proposal says something different from this page, the proposal wins.
Using this website
You may read, quote and link to anything published here. You may not:
- republish our articles wholesale, or pass them off as your own
- scrape the site at a rate that degrades it for other people
- attempt to access the dashboard, the database, or any account that is not yours
- use the contact forms to send bulk, automated or unsolicited commercial messages
We may withdraw access to anyone doing the above. The site is provided as it is — we work hard on uptime but we do not guarantee it will never be unavailable.
Quotes and scope
Nothing on this website is a fixed price or a binding offer. Rates and ranges shown are indicative, based on past work, and depend entirely on what you actually need.
A real quote follows a scoping conversation and arrives as a written proposal setting out deliverables, milestones, assumptions and price. Work begins when that proposal is accepted in writing.
Anything not written into the proposal is out of scope. Changes are welcome — they are quoted and agreed before they are built, never billed as a surprise.
Payment
- Projects are invoiced against the milestones named in the proposal.
- Retainers and dedicated-team engagements are invoiced monthly in advance.
- Invoices are due within fourteen days unless the proposal says otherwise.
- Late payment may pause work and, under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998, may carry statutory interest.
- Prices exclude VAT and any third-party costs, which are listed separately.
What we need from you
Projects slip for predictable reasons. To keep yours on schedule we need:
- a single named decision-maker who can approve work
- content, assets and access to third-party accounts when the plan says so
- feedback within the review windows set out in the proposal
Where a delay is caused by waiting on your side, timelines move by the length of that wait and we will say so at the time rather than after.
Who owns what
Your project. On final payment, the code, designs and content we build specifically for you transfer to you outright.
Our toolkit. Libraries, internal components and general know-how we brought to the project stay ours. You get a perpetual, irrevocable licence to keep using them as part of your product, at no further cost.
Third-party licences. Open-source and commercial dependencies remain under their own licences, which we list on handover.
Showing the work. We may reference your project in our portfolio unless you ask us not to. Tell us and we will keep it private, no explanation needed.
Confidentiality
Anything you share with us about your business, your users or your plans stays between us. We will sign your NDA if you have one. Our team is bound by the same obligation, and it survives the end of the engagement.
Warranty and support
We warrant that work will be performed with reasonable skill and care, and that on delivery it will do materially what the proposal says.
Defects reported within thirty days of launch are fixed at no charge. That covers faults in what we built — it does not cover new features, changes you request later, or breakage caused by a third-party service or by changes made by someone else.
Ongoing maintenance is available as a separate agreement rather than assumed.
Liability
Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
Subject to that, our total liability under an engagement is capped at the fees you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for loss of profit, revenue, data or goodwill, or for indirect or consequential loss.
Ending an engagement
Either side may end a project on thirty days’ written notice. You pay for work completed and for anything already committed on your behalf; we hand over everything produced to that point.
We may end an engagement immediately for non-payment, or where continuing would put us in breach of the law.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.
Questions go to info@devtrios.com. See also our privacy policy.
