Two things live here. Sections 1–3 govern your use of this website. Sections 4–12 are the default commercial terms for studio work — they apply to an engagement unless a signed statement of work or master agreement says otherwise, in which case that document wins.
1. This website
ayuvam.com is provided as-is, for information. We try to keep it accurate but do not warrant that it is complete or current. Nothing on it is an offer capable of acceptance, and case study figures describe past projects rather than promising a result.
2. Our content
The text, design, code and imagery on this site belong to Ayuvam or our clients. Client names and marks appear with permission and remain their owners’ property. Do not reproduce our site’s content commercially without asking.
3. Acceptable use
Do not attempt to break, overload, scrape at damaging volume, or gain unauthorised access to this site or anything connected to it.
4. How an engagement starts
We scope the work and send a written proposal covering deliverables, price, schedule and what is explicitly out of scope. An engagement begins when you accept that proposal in writing and, where one is due, pay the deposit.
5. Scope and changes
The proposal defines the work. Anything outside it is a change: we will quote the time and cost and wait for written approval before doing it. Revision rounds are stated in the proposal; further rounds are billed at our standard rate.
Delivery dates assume you provide materials, feedback and approvals when agreed. Where you do not, dates move by at least the length of the delay.
6. Fees and payment
- Fixed-price work is normally 50% on acceptance and 50% on delivery, unless the proposal sets a different schedule.
- Invoices are due 14 days from issue.
- Late invoices may accrue interest at the statutory rate, and we may pause work until the account is current.
- Fees exclude VAT, sales tax and third-party costs — stock, licences, hosting, fonts — which are quoted separately and passed through at cost.
7. Intellectual property
On full payment, you own the final deliverables produced specifically for you, together with the rights needed to use them for the purpose described in the proposal.
We retain ownership of our pre-existing tools, frameworks, components and know-how, including anything we developed before or outside your project, and grant you a perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use those elements as embedded in your deliverables. Working files, unused concepts and source project files stay ours unless the proposal transfers them.
Third-party assets — stock footage, fonts, libraries, plugins — are licensed to you on their own terms, which we will identify.
8. Your material
You confirm you own or are licensed to use everything you give us, and that our using it as instructed will not infringe anyone’s rights. You indemnify us against claims arising from material you supplied.
9. Showing the work
We would like to show completed work in our portfolio and credit you. We will not do so without your written permission, and we will honour a confidentiality period where you need one. You can withdraw permission for future use at any time by emailing us.
10. Confidentiality
Each side keeps the other’s non-public information confidential and uses it only for the engagement. This survives the engagement ending. Where a separate NDA is in place, it takes precedence.
11. Warranties and liability
We will perform the work with reasonable skill and care. We will fix defects in deliverables reported within 30 days of delivery at no charge, where they are our fault.
We do not warrant any particular commercial outcome — views, rankings, conversion or revenue. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of an engagement is capped at the fees you paid for that engagement, and neither side is liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profits or data. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
12. Cancellation
Either side may end an engagement on 14 days’ written notice. You pay for work completed and for any non-cancellable third-party costs already committed. Deposits cover work already scheduled and are non-refundable once the engagement has started, except where we are the ones who cannot deliver.
13. Products
Our own software products are sold under their own terms. For Presently see presently.ayuvam.com/terms.
14. General
We act as an independent contractor, not an employee or partner. If any provision here is unenforceable, the rest stands. These terms are governed by the laws applicable at our principal place of business, and the courts there have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protections you have locally.
See also our privacy policy and security practices.