Terms

This page covers two things. The first half is who runs this website and what you agree to by reading it. The second half is what we are both agreeing to when you hire us to build something — the guarantee, the scope, the money and who owns what at the end.

It is here before you pay anything, not buried in a contract you read afterwards. Continuing to use this site (the Site) means you accept it. If you do not, stop here — nothing on the Site requires an account and nothing is stored.

It is written by the two of us in plain English and has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Where it is unclear, ask us and we will answer in writing.

So there is no doubt about who you are dealing with:

The studio

Automaitions — a two-person website studio on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. There is no third person and no agency behind us.

Who is responsible for what is published here

Jett and Beau, the two owners. team@automaitions.com.au — 0415 204 290.

Who built it

We did. This site is our own work, built on the same system we sell, which is the only claim about our work on it that you can check without asking us.

Where it is hosted

Vercel Inc. (United States), served from Vercel's Sydney region. Email for automaitions.com.au is handled by Google.

Privacy

What we do and do not collect is set out in full in our privacy policy.

The Site is free to read. It sets no cookie, asks for no account and stores nothing about you. You may read it, print it and send it to whoever you like.

You agree not to attempt to interfere with it — no scraping at a rate that degrades it for anyone else, no attempt to gain access to anything not published, and nothing that would break Australian law.

We can change, move or take down any page here at any time. Prices, examples and availability change, and the version of a page you read on one day is not a standing offer on another.

We build websites for Australian businesses — five-page business sites, landing pages, online stores, booking and enquiry sites, rebuilds, and the hosting and upkeep underneath them. The full list is on our services, and two things we do that are not the website itself are Google Business Profile and photography.

Nothing on this Site is an offer capable of acceptance. A price becomes real when we send you a written quote for your build, and that quote — with the tier, the page count and anything agreed on top — is what these terms attach to.

All prices are in Australian dollars and are exclusive of GST. GST is shown separately on your quote and your invoice.

What we promise

Your site is live within fourteen calendar days of the Start Date.

The Start Date

The day we have received, in full: your logo files, your photography, your brand colours if you have them, and a completed 45-minute interview. Not the day of the deposit, and not the day of the first call.

If we miss it

You take 20% off the final invoice. That is the full remedy — it is not cumulative and it does not compound per day.

The clock pauses

Any day we are waiting on you — feedback, assets, approvals, DNS or hosting access, or a payment — does not count toward the fourteen. We will tell you in writing the day it pauses and the day it resumes.

What it does not cover

Delays caused by your host, registrar, payment provider or a third-party platform; changes to the agreed scope; or anything outside our reasonable control.

Pages

The page count in your tier. Extra pages are quoted before they are built.

Revisions

Two rounds are included. A round is one consolidated set of changes from your named decision-maker. Further rounds are billed at our day rate.

Copy

We write it from the interview. You approve it. Rewrites requested after approval count as a revision round.

Out of scope

Anything not in the tier is a written change order, priced and agreed before work starts.

Decision-maker

One person, named at the start, whose approval is final.

Idle projects

If we have been waiting on you for fourteen consecutive days, we release your build slot. The deposit is not refunded; we will re-book you at the next opening.

Deposit

40% books your build slot and is non-refundable — it holds a fortnight of capacity we cannot resell at short notice.

First draft

30% when we hand you the first draft for review.

Balance

30% on launch, payable within 7 days of the site going live.

Ownership

On final payment you own the domain, the content and the code outright. We keep the right to show the work publicly unless you ask us in writing not to.

Launch

“Live” means published to your domain. If your DNS or hosting is controlled by a third party who blocks us, we hand over a finished site and written instructions — that counts as launch.

Care plan

Optional, month to month, cancel any time with 30 days’ notice.

Everything published on this Site — the writing, the layout, the code, the photography of our own businesses and the screenshots of work we have built — is ours, except where it is plainly a client's own logo or brand mark, which stays theirs. Without our written permission you may not:

• Copy, reproduce, republish or redistribute the Site or any substantial part of it.
• Present our work, our writing or our screenshots as your own or as someone else's.
• Use the Automaitions name or wordmark in a way that suggests we built something we did not.
• Strip, obscure or alter any credit or notice on anything we published.

Quoting a paragraph with a link back to the page is fine and always will be.

Work we build for you is the opposite way round: on final payment it is yours outright, as set out in article 6.

8.1 Access to the site

We do everything we reasonably can to keep this Site up, but we do not promise it will never be unavailable. It is served by a third party, reached over a network we do not own, and read on a device we have never seen. We are not liable for loss arising from the Site being unreachable, or from a browser or device rendering it differently to how it was built.

8.2 Running the site

We may at any time suspend, interrupt or limit access to all or part of the Site, remove anything that interferes with its operation, or take it offline to update it. Where we can give notice first, we will.

8.3 Your equipment

The device, browser and internet connection you use to reach the Site are your responsibility and your cost, including keeping them secure and up to date.

8.4 What you read here

The advice on this Site — the teardown, the FAQ answers, anything we write about how to run a website — is general and written without knowing your business. It is not legal, financial or tax advice. Nothing here is a promise of a commercial result.

This Site links out — to the businesses we have built for, to our own five businesses, and to tools we name. We do not control any of them, we do not check them continuously, and a link is not an endorsement of everything on the other end of it. Once you leave this Site you are on someone else's terms and someone else's privacy policy.

If you want to link to us, link to any page you like. If you would rather we did not show your build publicly, tell us in writing and we will take it down.

Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing on this page limits or removes those rights, and where anything above conflicts with them, the law wins. Where the law allows us to limit our liability, it is limited to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.

How we handle personal information is governed by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and set out in our privacy policy.

These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia. Any dispute goes to the courts of Queensland.

Before it gets that far: email one of us. Every problem we have had on a build has been solved by a phone call, and we would rather have that call.

We update this page when the way we work changes. The date at the top is the date of the version you are reading, and the version that applies to your build is the one current on the day you accepted your quote. If we change something that affects a build already underway, we will tell you in writing rather than quietly editing the page.

Questions about any of this? Raise them on the fit call — that is what it is for. Or email us and one of the two of us will answer.